Fast Loop in PICBASIC Pro

[sayzer]

 I VAR BYTE SYSTEM

LOOP1: ; 150 cycles. Not very fast
    For I=10 TO 1 STEP -1
    NEXT I
    
LOOP2: ; 90 cycles. A lot better
    I = 10
    REPEAT
     I=I-1
    UNTIL I=0
ASM   ; 31 cycles. Pretty fast
LOOP3
     MOVLW 0xA
     MOVWF I      ; I=10
INNER
     DECFSZ I,F   ; I=I-1. IF I=0 skip next instruction
     GOTO INNER  ; Loop until I=0
ENDASM

FINISH:
    GOTO FINISH

...and, there is also the expert approach!

You know, we kiss the hand of the experts here.



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[skimask]

...and, there is also the expert approach!

You know, we kiss the hand of the experts here.



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Or the keyboard of the experts...

However, I saw the original poster's first line
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Hi guys,

I'm new to PICBasic!!
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which says to me 'not fluent in any sort of asm', so he's probably not going to get much better than 90 cycles
JDG