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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a style question
Message-ID: <12683:Oct102:57:1590@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 1 Oct 90 02:57:15 GMT
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In article <8660@ncar.ucar.edu> steve@groucho.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson) writes:
> 	# define NUM_ELEMENTS	100
> 	for (x = 0; x < NUM_ELEMENTS; x++) ...

Hmmm. I'll automatically write x = NUM_ELEMENTS; while (x--) ... for
this kind of loop. On many computers it'll run noticeably faster, and I
can safely replace NUM_ELEMENTS by a function call.

---Dan