OpenEuphoria

Re: loops & perfomace

• Posted by Ted Fines <fines at macalester.edu> Apr 28, 2001
• 657 views

I don't think it makes a difference.  Euphoria would appear to be executing 
the for loop the 'smart' way.  I did a quick test with this code--

sequence s
s=repeat(32,50000000)
atom a,t0,loop_overhead
integer lengthofs

t0=time()
lengthofs=length(s)
for c=1 to lengthofs do
    a=power(2,20)
end for
loop_overhead=time()-t0
puts(1,sprintf("%d seconds",loop_overhead))

...and then tried it, replacing this line:
for c=1 to lengthofs do
with this one:
for c=1 to length(s) do

and it ran at the same speed.

This code was just lifted from the docs located in 
C:\EUPHORIA\HTML\LIB_S_T.HTM, and slightly modified...

--Ted

--On Saturday, April 28, 2001 12:01 PM +0200 martin.stachon at worldonline.cz 
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> Hi,
> i've got an performace question. We've got a loop
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> for i=1 to length(s) do
>        ...
> end for
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> is length(s) evaluated every time loop is done? So would be in Euphoria
> faster
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> l= length(s)
> for i=1 to l do
>     ...
> end for
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> as i read in one C book?
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