Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 06:11:35 07/20/03
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On July 20, 2003 at 08:01:50, Uri Blass wrote:
>The question is if there is a way to optimize loops without writing the same
>commands twice in the code that does the code less readable.
>
>I have in some places in movei things like
>
>while (i<n)
>{
> f(i);
> i++;
>}
>f(n);
>
>
>f is practically some C lines and not a function
>because I use some local varaibles and giving them to
>a function may make the program slower.
>
>The problem is how to avoid writing the lines of f
>twice without doing the code slower.
>
>The following option is slower because I have also
>i++ when i=n
>
>do
>{
> f(i);
> i++;
>}
>while (i<=n);
>
>I also thought about the following code but
>I do not like if commands and I understood it is better
>to have branchless code.
>
>do
>{
> f(i);
> if (i==n)
> break;
> i++;
>}
>while (1);
>
>Uri
Did you profile your code to determine whether optimizing this is worthwhile?
Why did you reject "for (;i<=n; i++) f(i);", which is normal for such cases?
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