use switch cases

[adrian-kong]

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[adrian-kong]

using this branch on solution pos

using silverjam/py311

seems like switch is slower (?)
might be better readability but not really i guess. can disregard this change

[adrian-kong]

#1002

[silverjam]

Maybe a diction lookup to some functions would be faster?

E.g. move the body of each if/else into a function, associate those functions with the message types they handle, lookup the handler based on the message type and call the handler. This would incur the overhead of a function call for each message though so not sure if that'd be faster than the simple if/else.

[adrian-kong]

hmm yea maybe - was hoping the python bump can use some cool match statements but nvm.
might be too tiny to measure performance changes on if elses to using map lookups, will just close this PR :(