Re: Internally, how do for() and while() differ?

in reply to Internally, how do for() and while() differ?

For further reading, i recommend doing a little studying on how loops are implemented in assembly language:

http://h2g2.com/entry/A533530
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/assembly_programming/assembly_loops.htm
http://people.cs.pitt.edu/~xujie/cs447/Mips/loop.html

You don't have to be an assembly language expert, but simply browsing over the details can be enough to help you better understand the underlying "differences." ;)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

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