[fpc-pascal] for loop vs while loop

Nitorami mneubauer at alice-dsl.net
Wed Feb 1 21:17:27 CET 2017


Just a note - I learned that for very short "for" loops it may be even a bit
faster to count downwards (to zero) rather than upwards if possible, because
the comparison to zero is very effiicient. Not sure though whether that
still makes a difference on modern processors.



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