Touch screen input - Optimisation

[system]

I’m rather new to scripting for mobile and the best solution I have found for detecting if an object is being touched is this:

if(Input.touchCount > 0) {
   var hit : RaycastHit;
   var ray = Camera.main.ScreenPointToRay (Input.mousePosition);
   if (Physics.Raycast(ray, hit, distance)){
       if (hit.collider.gameObject == something)
   }

}

However, I have 50 objects that can be touched. This means that 50 rays are being cast.

How do I go about optimising this?

[syclamoth]

Why do you need to do the raycast 50 times? Even if there’s no way of detecting the correct object other than using an if-statement, why can’t you just put it all under the first raycast?

if(Physics.Raycast(ray, hit, distance))
{
    switch(hit.collider.gameObject)
    {
        case something:
        {
            // Do things
            break;
        }
        case somethingElse:
        {
            // Do other things
            break;
        }
    }
}

(and so on)

Or, if you have an array of touchable objects, you can do something like this-

if(touchableObjectCollection.Contains(hit.collider.gameObject))
{
    // do stuff
}

(syntax is obviously dependent upon your exact implementation).