Assume i have the following code, there are three for loop to do something. Would it run fast if i change the most outer for loop to while loop? thanks~~
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Someone suggested to test while
vs for
loops, so I created some code to test whether while loops or for loops were faster; on average, over 100,000 tests, while
loop was faster ~95% of the time. I may have coded it incorrectly, I'm quite new to coding, also considering if I only ran 10,000 loops they ended up being quite even in run duration.
edit I didn't shift all the array values when I went to test for more trials. Fixed it so that it's easier to change how many trials you run.
import java.util.Arrays;
class WhilevsForLoops {
public static void main(String[] args) {
final int trials = 100; //change number of trials
final int trialsrun = trials - 1;
boolean[] fscount = new boolean[trials]; //faster / slower boolean
int p = 0; // while counter variable for for/while timers
while (p <= trialsrun) {
long[] forloop = new long[trials];
long[] whileloop = new long[trials];
long systimeaverage;
long systimenow = System.nanoTime();
long systimethen = System.nanoTime();
System.out.println("For loop time array : ");
for (int counter=0;counter <= trialsrun; counter++) {
systimenow = System.nanoTime();
System.out.print(" #" + counter + " @");
systimethen = System.nanoTime();
systimeaverage = (systimethen - systimenow);
System.out.print( systimeaverage + "ns |");
forloop[counter] = systimeaverage;
}
int count = 0;
System.out.println(" ");
System.out.println("While loop time array: ");
while (count <= trialsrun) {
systimenow = System.nanoTime();
System.out.print(" #" + count + " @");
systimethen = System.nanoTime();
systimeaverage = (systimethen - systimenow);
System.out.print( systimeaverage + "ns |");
whileloop[count] = systimeaverage;
count++;
}
System.out.println("===============================================");
int sum = 0;
for (int i = 0; i <= trialsrun; i++) {
sum += forloop[i];
}
System.out.println("for loop time average: " + (sum / trials) + "ns");
int sum1 = 0;
for (int i = 0; i <= trialsrun; i++) {
sum1 += whileloop[i];
}
System.out.println("while loop time average: " + (sum1 / trials) + "ns");
int longer = 0;
int shorter = 0;
int gap = 0;
sum = sum / trials;
sum1 = sum1 / trials;
if (sum1 > sum) {
longer = sum1;
shorter = sum;
}
else {
longer = sum;
shorter = sum1;
}
String longa;
if (sum1 > sum) {
longa = "~while loop~";
}
else {
longa = "~for loop~";
}
gap = longer - shorter;
System.out.println("The " + longa + " is the slower loop by: " + gap + "ns");
if (sum1 > sum) {
fscount[p] = true; }
else {
fscount[p] = false;
}
p++;
}
int forloopfc=0;
int whileloopfc=0;
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(fscount));
for(int k=0; k <= trialsrun; k++) {
if (fscount[k] == true) {
forloopfc++; }
else {
whileloopfc++;}
}
System.out.println("--------------------------------------------------");
System.out.println("The FOR loop was faster: " + forloopfc + " times.");
System.out.println("The WHILE loop was faster: " + whileloopfc + " times.");
}
}