"Robert Wilkens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 
> Please consider taking the 'if i==1' thing out of the loop... Do your initialization
> before you enter the loop, then�make the loop 'for i =�2 to 5' instead of 1 to 5.� 
>The
> way your code is written it's not only doing an unnecessary compare, it's not only 
>less
> readable, but it's also doing that unnecessary compare�with a branch�*four* times in
> the loop.� X-windows is slow enough without bad code making it worse.�
> 

The i == 1 there is so completely irrelevant to any real-world
performance consideration it's not even funny. Worrying about it for
that reason would be nuts.

Only code readability should be considered here.

Havoc


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