Claudio Grondi schrieb:
>
> Sometimes it is known in advance, that the time spent in a loop will be
> in order of minutes or even hours, so it makes sense to optimize each
> element in the loop to make it run faster.
> One of instructions which can sure be optimized away is the check for
> the break condition, at least within the time where it is known that the
> loop will not reach it.
>
> Any idea how to write such a loop?
>
> e.g.
>
> counter = 2*64
>
> while counter(BUT DON'T CHECK IT THE FIRST ONE HOUR LONG):
now = time.time()
while time.time() - now < 3600.0 or some_other_condition:
...
The short circuiting of the or will prevent the execution of
some_other_condition.
> ... do something ... # and decrease the counter
>
> Thanks for any hint, but in particular if related to timers on the
> Windows 2000/XP system I am mainly working with.
>
> What do you think about this idea? Does it make sense?
What idea?
Diez
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