Which of these pieces of code is faster in Java?

Question

a) for(int i = 100000; i > 0; i--) {}

b) for(int i = 1; i < 100001; i++) {}

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Answer 1

I decided to bite and necro back the thread.

both of the loops are ignored by the JVM as no-ops. so essentially even one of the loops were till 10 and the other till 10000000, there would have been no difference.

Looping back to zero is another thing (for jne instruction but again, it's not compiled like that), the linked site is plain weird (and wrong).

This type of a question doesn't fit any JVM (nor any other compiler that can optimize).