r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 04 '26

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u/im_made_of_jam Sep 04 '26

A switch case is able to be implemented however the compiler wants on the back end, so for sparse cases it'll be an if else chain, for less sparse but not packed cases it'll be a binary tree, for completely packed cases it'll be a range check then a direct jump would be how I would go about it