From: Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@...>
Date: 2009-02-21T23:42:57+09:00
Subject: Re: while vs loop

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On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Louis-Philippe <default@spiralix.org>wrote:

> mmm, Interesting to see loop being this high in the list,
> but even if they all loop from 0  to X doesn't mean they can all
> compared...
> I'm not sure what was the initial question (!!!), but mine is about
> infinite
> loop implementations,
> where list iterators  of the .each flavour don't do.
>
> So *THE* fastest ruby infinite loop is 'while 1'?
>

Anything purporting to be an infinite loop which runs faster than something
which is an infinite loop is, by definition NOT an infinite loop!
<G>
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