[Oberon] A CASE quiz

[Diego Sardina]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2018, at 1:07 PM, Jörg wrote:

> A word to speed benefit: Even if you have - let’s say - 128 case labels you would need only 7 IFs at runtime (with binary division).
> So, the benefit of having a jump table is rather small.
> Don’t get me wrong: numeric CASE is nice and syntactically pleasing, but how often do you need it?

About performance consideration: http://bernd-oppolzer.de/CaseStmts.pdf

The figure on page 10 is very interesting