Loop speeds;

[Mr.Mo]

Alright, I'm having major lag with the FOR loop.

I was wondering if the loop speeds vary. Like if While is faster then For or something.

I need to know for my Tilemap class. It works fine for small maps, but when it gets big the damn thing freezes.

 

[Daniel]

Well, since you are talking about the Tilemap class, I'm guessing that in each loop it creates a bitmap. That might cause lag, because if I recall correctly, bitmaps take a while to make.

And about your original question, I think they are about the same, but I'll let someone else answer better.

 

[Anonymous]

It would only freeze if the loop is caught, i.e. never broken. Are you doing something like "for i in 1...@tilemap_tiles.size (note: that's not a real variable :D)" with a huge tileset? It may simply be that you have a slow computer. Sorry, that probably wasn't too helpful ;_;...

 

[linkz0r]

The speed of the loops is irrelevant (close to be the same in fact), it´s what is written inside it and/or the number of elements to evaluate that counts. If you could post the code used we could help you better....