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Java For Each

Posted by Ileana Bunea
Ileana Bunea
1,117 Points

Hello. Why is this "new school" for each loop better than the "old school" for loop, besides the cleaner code?

is it a compiler or a run time difference?

1 Answer

Keli'i Martin
Keli'i Martin
8,227 Points
Keli'i Martin
Keli'i Martin
8,227 Points

Here is an article I found on StackOverflow.com that kinda talks about it. It looks like it is mostly just a cleaner look, but there is probably a performance hit with the allocating of iterators on the for-each method.

Ileana Bunea
Ileana Bunea
1,117 Points

Thank you, Keli'i Martin.