Might be its is due to the comparison operation which takes many cycles

i < max takes more cycles of cpu than just simply checking i

On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 6:50 PM, shiva <shivanand.kadwad...@gmail.com>wrote:

> I want to know is there any difference between following two loop in
> terms of speed.
>
> 1.
> for(i=0;i<max;i++)
> {
>
> //Some operation
> }
> 2.
> for(i=max; i; i--)
> {
>
> /Some operation
>
> }
>
> I heard second one is faster but don't have any proof
>
> Please comment.
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