Originally Posted by thekashyap

3. Optimizing the breaking conditions in for loops. If you know that the loop variable's range is from 0 to some +ve number AND it doesn't matter which way you traverse while looping, you can optimize the loop like this:

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//original loop
for( int i = 0; i <= 30; i++ )
{/*do your stuff*/}
//optimized loop
for( int i = 30; i--; )
{/*do your stuff*/}

//original loop for( int i = 0; i <= 30; i++ ) {/*do your stuff*/} //optimized loop for( int i = 30; i--; ) {/*do your stuff*/}