If Else Vs Switch In C. If statement evaluates integer character pointer or floating point type or boolean type. The switch casestatement is similar to the else if ladder as it provides multiple branching or multi conditional processing.
A switch statement tests expressions based only on a single integer enumerated value or string object. If statement evaluates integer character pointer or floating point type or boolean type. If else statement uses multiple statement for multiple choices.
The results show that the switch statement is faster to execute than the if else if ladder.
This is due to the compiler s ability to optimise the switch statement. If there are only few cases it might not effect the speed in any case. If else conditional branches are great for variable conditions that result into a boolean whereas switch statements are great for fixed data values. In the case of if else statement either the if block or the else block will be executed based on the condition.
