The switch construct is generally more than twice as fast at matching a simple integer within a single large set of conditions.

There is largely little difference between the time it takes to find a condition using if,if statements or if-elseif statements. Also the size of the resulting scripts were only negligibly different compared to the difference in execution time.

At first I thought that since the switch statement breaks execution after it matches its value especially since I was using random numbers, that this could account for the time difference, but that also had no bearing. Setting $var=999999 in the below statements had little effect on the faster execution time of the switch statement.

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