[Hawk552]

Originally Posted by Sean D also don't listen to anything hawk says, he doesn't know what he's talking about

Yeah, I don't, and I clearly said that. I just suggested what it could be based on what I knew about other languages.

[Arkshine]

Just curious what amxxdump would give :

PHP Code:

// while( true ) {}
0x58                      BREAK
0x5C                      BREAK
0x60                      BREAK
0x64                      JUMP  0x60

// for( ;; ) {}
0x78                      BREAK
0x7C                      BREAK
0x80                      JUMP  0x8C
0x88                      BREAK
0x8C                      JUMP  0x88

// hello: goto hello
0xA0                      BREAK
0xA4                      BREAK
0xA8                      LCTRL  0x5
0xB0                      SCTRL  0x4
0xB8                      BREAK
0xBC                      JUMP  0xA8 


[Hawk552]

Looks like I was right after all for each of my predictions, at least for Pawn.

EDIT: Actually, I'm not sure how expensive LCTRL and SCTRL are, but if they're more expensive than a JUMP then yeah.

[Ingram]

If Hawk is right, I don't know what I am reading wrong. Once in the loops, they are exactly the same...

That jump beforehand could have also been dropped if it was optimized by the compiler.

[OneEyed]

What about

myFunc() 
{
      myFunc();
}

[Arkshine]

amxxdump :

PHP Code:

0x2C                       PROC              ; stock myFunc()
0x30                       BREAK
0x34                       BREAK
0x38                       PUSH.C  0x0
0x40                       CALL  0x2C        ; stock myFunc()
0x48                       ZERO.pri
0x4C                       RETN 


[Hawk552]

Originally Posted by Ingram If Hawk is right, I don't know what I am reading wrong. Once in the loops, they are exactly the same... That jump beforehand could have also been dropped if it was optimized by the compiler.

Originally Posted by Hawk552 BTW, the reason I think the while loop would be faster is that it only takes 1 parameter. A for loop is basically a while loop that has 2 extra parameters (action after each iteration and action prior to first iteration), so there's no reason a for loop would be faster.

Originally Posted by Hawk552 EDIT: Actually, I'm not sure how expensive LCTRL and SCTRL are, but if they're more expensive than a JUMP then yeah.

[Sean D]

I TRUST THAT THIS SETTLES THE MATTER

[Hawk552]

Originally Posted by Sean D I TRUST THAT THIS SETTLES THE MATTER

I believe it does, but it's still different in Pawn.

[danielkza]

Originally Posted by Hawk552 I believe it does, but it's still different in Pawn.

The only thing we learned from all this is that AMXX's compiler sucks.