Is performance gained when using continue in a for-loop with many if-statements?

Question

I have a for loop in a java program which iterates through a set of maps.

Inside the loop I have around 10 different if-statements which checks the name of each key

Answer 1

Because you have just a few values, IMO, you'll have a real performance improvement here if you map your strings to ints, since the int comparison is far faster than a String comparison.

Check this out

public class Lab1 {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        usingStrings();
        usingInts();


    }

    private static void usingInts() {
        int[] samples = new int[100000000];
        int[] values = {1,2,3,4};
        for(int i=0;i