?: Operator Vs. If Statement Performance

Question

I\'ve been trying to optimize my code to make it a little more concise and readable and was hoping I wasn\'t causing poorer performance from doing it. I think my changes mi

Answer 1

For discussion sake... if/then/else runs just as fast as the ?: ternary operation as fast as a single level switch/case statement.

Here are some performance benchmarks with the C# code.

It's only when you start getting 2-3 levels deep in case statements that performance starts to be severely impacted. That is, something like this ridiculous example:

switch (x % 3)
    {
        case 0:
            switch (y % 3)
            {
                case 0: total += 3;
                    break;
                case 1: total += 2;
                    break;
                case 2: total += 1;
                    break;
                default: total += 0;
                    break;
            }
            break;
        case 1:
            switch (y % 3)
            {
                case 0: total += 3;
                    break;
                case 1: total += 2;
                    break;
                case 2: total += 1;
                    break;
                default: total += 0;
                    break;
            }
            break;
    case 2:
            switch (y % 3)
            {
                case 0: total += 3;
                    break;
                case 1: total += 2;
                    break;
                case 2: total += 1;
                    break;
                default: total += 0;
                    break;
            }
            break;
    default:
        switch (y % 3)
        {
            case 0: total += 3;
                break;
            case 1: total += 2;
                break;
            case 2: total += 1;
                break;
            default: total += 0;
                break;
        }
        break;
    }