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Re: PATCH: java.util.Collections and java.util.Vector
Bryce> (given a modern cpu, is it really faster to use a descending
Bryce> loop, or is that just an old hacker legend?)
I always figured that people did descending loops so that the
optimizer could more easily notice that the loop bound was constant.
I haven't looked to see whether gcj knows that `array.length' is
constant if array never changes. (I doubt it does.)
Thanks for the update.
Tom