Joshua Thijssen • 3/4/2021

Go maps vs switches

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This technical article benchmarks switch statements against map lookups for mapping values in Go. It details the code setup, benchmark results showing a significant speed advantage for switches, and explores the underlying assembly to explain the performance difference. The post is a practical analysis of Go performance and code readability trade-offs.

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