Most Effecient way to repeat a handler/function - Found word(s) list error in the Text body

[J. Landman Gay]

Oops. That reads way snarkier than it sounded in my head. Sorry.

On 2/13/14, 10:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 2/13/14, 8:53 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>> Aye, but the question was which form of repeat was more efficient.
>
> I thought you said that any repeat loop was equal to another, and just
> pointed out that an empty loop (your original test) didn't mean much
> until you put some code in it.
>
> It's pretty well established that the "for each" form is a magnitude
> faster than the counting form. I was just responding to this:
>
>> I ran a 100,000 count
>> loop with nothing in the repeat loop to do and it took 1 tick.
>
> It was a trivial point: that an empty repeat loop of any form is going
> to be quick; it's the code inside that matters. In your examples, the
> code inside happens to be another repeat loop, but that's a different
> thing.
>
> I suspect we're talking about the same thing and we don't know it. ;)
>


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