From: john AT devereux DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (John Devereux)
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Subject: Re: Theoretical question of loops
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 19:33:16 GMT
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On Sun, 2 Feb 1997 07:35:11 GMT, Pyro Technic <invid AT dmv DOT com> wrote:

>I've got a weird question, wich would be faster and how would I
>measuree it. Would doing 2 things 3 times be faster or slower than doing
>3 things 2 times.
>
>
>// loop set 1
>//is this faster
>for(i=0; i<3; ++i)
>	{
>	for(j=0; j<2; ++j)
>		{
>		//stuff here
>		}
>	}
>
>// loop set 2
>//or is this 
>for(i=0; i<2; ++i)
>	{
>	for(j=0; j<3; ++j)
>		{
>		//stuff here
>		}
>	}
>
>weird stuff. Thanks a lot.
>
>	Pyro


The second version is faster, I think. There is less overhead because
the code to initialise the inner loop is executed less often.