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[Kevin Hearn]

changing the order of the switch should not result in a speedup anyways, since the switch should be compiled as a jump table instead of a chain of if statements since it uses (presumably) contiguous values (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) - perhaps changing the order from that resulted in it compiling as not a jump table but i'd assume the compiler should rearrange them unless some of your case statements are not seperated by a break;