Question about event handling

Let's say I use SDL (1.2 or 2.0) in my program to handle events, should I use callbacks or the good old giant switch statement?

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any better idea

Yes. Use callbacks properly.

but I think it was very clear what I meant

Callbacks are real things used for event handling. Whatever you are pretnding to be thinking of probably isn't.

It is not microoptimisation, it is very clear that it is going to be slower that way

It is, and callbacks aren't even slower. Even if you get the compiler to emit an O(1) switch (good luck with that), it's O(n) in terms of events received. Using callbacks is O(n) in terms of events handled.