Python style questions
Michael Hudson
mwh21 at cam.ac.uk
Tue Mar 20 09:30:40 EST 2001
Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> writes:
> Joshua Marshall <jmarshal at mathworks.com> wrote:
> >
> >A switch statement may just be syntactic sugar, but not necessarily in
> >a simple way. A good compiler will compile switch statements into
> >jump-tables or, at worst, binary searches. Cluttery to code by hand.
> >
> >Sure this is "just" an efficiency thing, but switches can get quite big.
>
> But Python, at least today, is not compiled.
Yes it is (at least in this context).
> Switch statements in an interpreted language are not as big of a
> "win".
There's no reason that the bytecode compiler couldn't do binary search
jiggery-pokery, although if I was doing it, I'd probably use a
dictionary.
Cheers,
M.
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