🚀 Fast and Curious, C#: Guide to Conditional Patterns!

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At Leoxia , we love to dive into practical performance topics that impact real-world development. This first post is a trial balloon—simple and concrete. And what better way to start than by benchmarking how we write conditions in C#?

🧪 What did we test?
We compared five common ways to structure condition logic in C#:

    Classicif/else

    Nested ternary operators

    switchstatements

    Pattern matching with types

    Pre-computed array indexing

     

    ⚙️ Tools & Setup

      Framework : .NET 8

      Benchmarking : BenchmarkDotNet

      Code available on GitHub : github.com/leoxialtd

      📊 Results Summary

      Each method has strengths and trade-offs. While array indexingmay seem unnatural in some cases, it turns out to be incredibly fast—especially when used for lookup scenarios rather than control flow. But beware: performance can shift depending on the complexity and size of your condition set.

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