While loop VS for loop

[rpr]

I am enabling the index and getting the values inside both for loop and while loop.Which one do you guys think is efficient and a proper coding style.I maybe wrong but i feel while loop to be much faster than for loop.Is that true?

[tst]

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rpr wrote:

i feel while loop to be much faster than for loop.Is that true?

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No, they both run at basically the same speed given the same conditions. If anything, the while loop will run a bit slower because it has a condition to evaluate with every iteration.

The basic rule is simple - you use a for loop if you want to run a known number of times. Otherwise, you use a while loop. There is one exception and that's using the conditional terminal on the for loop. You can see some details here.

There are two performance enhancments which a for loop can have - because it is run a known number of times it can have the memory for its outputs preallocated (which makes a big difference) and on certain occasions it can be computed before the VI runs.

[rpr]

Thanx for the explanation Tst.