WHILE Loop vs FOR/NEXT Loop

[RandomiserUsr]

Hi, quick question:


Programming styles aside which performs better at run time, WHILE or FOR/NEXT ?

I will guess with both are the same? :-)

Thanks

[boriel]

Both are nearly the same. But if you are using a counter variable within the WHILE loop, a FOR / NEXT will be optimal because it will increase the variable for you and this is optimized internally during the traduction to assembler.

[RandomiserUsr]

Both are nearly the same. But if you are using a counter variable within the WHILE loop, a FOR / NEXT will be optimal because it will increase the variable for you and this is optimized internally during the traduction to assembler.

Thanks for that