On 2023-02-26 at 11:56, Francesco Pretto via Std-Proposals wrote:
> Hello,
>
> is there any proposal in the works for switch on strings? With all the
> constexpr constructors and equality operators in place, what's missing
> to finally have such construct in modern C++?
>

With integers, if they have consecutive values, you can optimize the
switch by using an array of jump-targets and index it with the case-values.

Strings cannot be used as an array index, so it would still be the same
as a set of if-else statements. So no performance gain. Then why bother?