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I once had to work with some outsourced developers who would do "something(); something(); something();..." rather than "for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) something()
by VectorLock 7y ago
I once had to work with some outsourced developers who would do "something(); something(); something();..." rather than "for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) something();" when instructed to repeat something X times.
- ascar 7y agoIt's called loop unrolling and improves performance by eliminating loop control overhead and reducing branch mispredictions. Maybe they had a compiler background :)? /s
- ktpsns 7y agoIf they had, they would know that virtually any compiler can do this on his own. I also know these examples and I know the people who are writing them. "Copy & Paste" coding is just more convenient for them instead of writing a loop, fizzling with brackets, indation or whatever. They don't produce high entropy code.