summing large arrays - or - performance of tight loops

Dave Dave_member at pathlink.com
Thu Apr 19 10:29:46 PDT 2007


Craig Black wrote:
>>  I think the "trust the compiler" philosophy is for stability (20 years 
>> old), not optimizations.
> 
> Nope.  Read the documentation on foreach.  It says specifically that foreach 
> is preferred over other looping mechanisms because the compiler will 
> optimize it.
> 
> -Craig 
> 
> 

Sorry - I misunderstood you, and hadn't seen that documentation.

Thanks,

- Dave



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