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Re: Computation time for newcommer


From: c.
Subject: Re: Computation time for newcommer
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:47:24 +0200

On 29 Sep 2012, at 23:49, Joza wrote:

> 1) Using vectors instead of for loops is faster, as it uses the vector math
> optimizations of the processor?

yes, it is faster, but no, not for that reason.
the real reason is that when loops are used the 
code in the loop has to be interpreted at each 
iteration which adds a big overhead to the computation.

c.


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