OpenEuphoria

Re: IF / WHILE / FOR

• Posted by Pete Lomax <petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk> Jun 12, 2004
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On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 16:25:33 -0700, Daniel Kluss
<xerox_irs at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>I remember hearing a while ago about "while 1 do" being omptimized somehow
>in euphoria, and was wondering if "if 1 then / if 0 then" or even "for " are
>similarly optimized.
>I'm wondering if a bunch of "if <constant> then" 's can be done with no
>penalty in speed.
>
As it happens, I tested this the other week (as I've done just this on
my other, far from complete project [ask me privately, or on openEU,
not here]), and the penalty is there, on RDS Eu, albeit small. As Rob
said, this is on his todo list.

However, I have to ask, what would you want optimised with a for loop?
I almost get it, but I'd like a real/believable example, since I
imagine that bothering to do this on a for loop might not be very
useful, since it is likely to be extremely rare.

Regards,
Pete
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