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[T.Jackson]

Thanks for sharing those figures with us Steve. Repeat is the same as a conditional (DO Loop) ? Main reason DO's are faster is because unlike For Nexts, they don't have counters. In VB, (For Nexts) are idiot proof making them relatively bloated & slow.
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[mister_e]

Repeat is the same as a conditional (DO Loop) ?

Yes indeed.

Main reason DO's are faster is because unlike For Nexts, they don't have counters.

mmm yes and no. Here what reduce the speed is more likely the .0[Temp] stuff. Let's see

@   SIZESTART
    for temp = 0 to 7
        next temp
@   SIZEEND "FOR-TO-NEXT"
 
@   SIZESTART
    temp = 0
    repeat
        temp=temp+1
        until temp = 8
@  SIZEEND "REPEAT - UNTIL"

FOR-TO-NEXT: 13 WORDS, 113 UsEC
REPEAT - UNTIL: 9 WORDS, 72 UsEC

about the same code space, 41uSec of difference in the speed for the whole thing.

But now, have a look at this

@   SIZESTART
    Summe_Alarm.0 = 0
@   SIZEEND "Direct Bit Addressing"
 
@   SIZESTART
    temp = 0
    summe_Alarm.0[temp] = 0
@  SIZEEND ".0[Temp] stuff"

Direct Byte Addressing: 1 WORDS, 1 UsEC
.0[Temp] stuff: 10 WORDS, 47 UsEC

That's 46 uSec BY single instructions/lines like that. So... much revealant when you use them a loop that the loop itself.