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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: boolean to int : was char to decimal
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Michael Wojcik <mwojcik@newsguy.com> wrote:
> It's unlikely a Java implementation will benefit detectably from
> anything other than the straightforward cascading-if-else design.
> Certainly that would be the one to start with, and only investigate
> alternatives if performance is a problem and profiling indicates this
> is a useful target for optimization.

The more those poor-man's bitsets have to be passed around or stored
"en masse", rather than just being assembled and used (as in the switch
example), the more it will pay.