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From: "Alex Herbert" <alex@herbs.dabsol.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.beginners
Subject: Re: map-tastic tile question
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 23:18:38 +0100
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Robert Shand <bob@shandfam.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:7kbc23$4fj3@chuka.playstation.co.uk...
>
> Ok this probably isn't on the lines that you were thinking of but it
should
> still improve speed a teeny little bit.
>
> When doing for loops do -- instead of ++, apparently the Playstation is
ever
> so slightly quicker at --
>
> For example
>
> int i
> for(i=100000,i!=0;i--)
> {
>     printf("Hello world\n");
> }
>
> Hope that helps
>
> Bob
> bob@shandfam.freeserve.co.uk
>
>
>

I can't see why -- should be any faster than ++.  I would imagin that it's
the comparison with 0 which is quicker.


Herbs