Is there any overhead iterating over a pointer using a slice?
Gary Willoughby via Digitalmars-d-learn
digitalmars-d-learn at puremagic.com
Wed Jun 1 12:08:02 PDT 2016
On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 20:52:20 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Tuesday, 31 May 2016 at 18:55:18 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
>>
>> If I have a pointer and iterate over it using a slice, like
>> this:
>>
>> T* foo = &data;
>>
>> foreach (element; foo[0 .. length])
>> {
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> Is there any overhead compared with pointer arithmetic in a
>> for loop?
>
> Use the assembly output of your compiler to check! :-) It's
> fun to look at.
> For example, with GDC:
> http://goo.gl/Ur9Srv
>
> No difference.
>
> cheers,
> Johan
That's pretty nice.
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