{"id":20318,"date":"2022-11-09T08:59:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-why-is-this-for-loop-taking-so-long\/"},"modified":"2022-11-09T08:59:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T03:29:56","slug":"solved-why-is-this-for-loop-taking-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jassweb.com\/solved\/solved-why-is-this-for-loop-taking-so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"[Solved] why is this for loop taking so long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"answer-8244483\" class=\"answer js-answer accepted-answer js-accepted-answer\" data-answerid=\"8244483\" data-parentid=\"8244152\" data-score=\"6\" data-position-on-page=\"1\" data-highest-scored=\"1\" data-question-has-accepted-highest-score=\"1\" itemprop=\"acceptedAnswer\" itemscope itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Answer\">\n<div class=\"post-layout\">\n<div class=\"votecell post-layout--left\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"answercell post-layout--right\">\n<div class=\"s-prose js-post-body\" itemprop=\"text\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>EDIT &#8211; just changed it so that it&#8217;s just an int, now it gets a value<br \/>\n  of -82938723047 or some such number. why on earth is this happening?<br \/>\n  It&#8217;s ruining my program!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>You are almost certainly barking up the wrong tree.  The code:<\/p>\n<pre><code>for (int i = 0; \n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>&#8230;initializes <code>i<\/code> to <code>0<\/code>, period.  If you&#8217;re trying to spy its value in the debugger and the debugger says <code>i<\/code> has a value that looks like uninitialized, garbage data, then you are probably looking at <code>i<\/code> either before or after <code>i<\/code> has entered scope and been initialized.  For example, in MSVC if you examine <code>i<\/code> before you enter the loop for the very first time, it will often have garbage data.<\/p>\n<p>These are not the droids you&#8217;re looking for.  Move along.<\/p>\n<p>Much more likely is this code:<\/p>\n<pre><code>level.PathLookupVectors()[globalNodePositionIndex][globalNodeChoice].size()\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>This is probably not doing what you think it&#8217;s doing.  <\/p>\n<p>By the way, if the type of <code>level.PathLookupVectors()[globalNodePositionIndex][globalNodeChoice]<\/code> is a <code>vector<\/code> of some kind, I&#8217;d prefer that you use a <code>for<\/code> loop constructed like this.<\/p>\n<pre><code>\/*psudocode*\/ for( vector::iterator it = v.begin(), it_end = v.end(); it != it_end; ++it )\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t need the index of the element you&#8217;re trying to access, then why refer to it?  You&#8217;re just introducing another potential failure point in your code.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mt24\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>            <span class=\"d-none\" itemprop=\"commentCount\"><\/span> <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n<p>solved why is this for loop taking so long? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] EDIT &#8211; just changed it so that it&#8217;s just an int, now it gets a value of -82938723047 or some such number. why on earth is this happening? It&#8217;s ruining my program! You are almost certainly barking up the wrong tree. The code: for (int i = 0; &#8230;initializes i to 0, period. 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