Dispatching on a variant

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Jeremie Pelletier <jeremiep at gmail.com> wrote:

> string switch actually walks the case strings and compares with the source
> string until it finds a match, a binary search is much faster if you don't
> care about the order of the tests.

FWIW the runtime does perform a binary search of the strings in a
switch. The compiler outputs the string table as a sorted list.