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Less procedure calling is faster

Well, you can see it surely takes a lot time to call a sub/function. Calling the sub in every loop is around 160% slower than calling the sub once and perform the action there!

'//This sub is called 500000 times!

Code: Public Sub TestOne() lngTemp = 100 End Sub

'//This sub is called once, and loops 500000 times in the loop

Code: Public Sub TestTwo() Dim I As Long For I = 1 To lngIterations '//Run test lngTemp = 100 Next I End Sub

W. Proc % faster than w/h Proc	W. Proc (sec)	w/h Proc (sec)
137%	0,007135	0,003010
149,7%	0,007517	0,003010
167,1%	0,008040	0,003010
168,2%	0,008075	0,003011
152,4%	0,007600	0,003010

User contributed notes:

Author: Tom (hurendo_kun at hotmail dot com)	Date: 05:09 23/09/2005
Also bear in mind that these subs have dual interfaces, which may adversely affect performance. If they were private, you might notice a smaller difference . . . but function calls are always slower than inline code anyway.