Performance impact using Begin/End statement

navninja

Hi,
I was wondering if there is any performance impact when using Begin/End. I have 2 different examples and was wondering if they are really only style differences or if there is an underlying performance hit when using Begin/End when it is not really needed.

Example 1:

IF <condition> THEN
<Do Something>;

vs

IF <condition> THEN BEGIN
<Do Something>;
END;


Example 2

IF Record.FINDSET THEN
REPEAT
<Do Something>;
UNTIL Record.NEXT = 0;

vs

IF Record.FINDSET THEN BEGIN
REPEAT
<Do Something>;
UNTIL Record.NEXT = 0;
END;


Thank you in advance.

John_N

I suspect not. I suspect that code will be optimised before execution

mdPartnerNL

I always use begin end structures. Much easier to read, upgrade and copy into other code snippets.

Can't think of any reason then (lazy) to not use it.

kriki

Lets suppose there is a performance impact in executing the code. We would be talking about microseconds.
If you do some database access, we are talking about milliseconds.

So 1 millisecond (generally more) for a database access + 10 microseconds (I think I am thinking LARGE!) for the extra processing = 1010 microseconds for everything.
=> I wouldn't care about those 10 microseconds!

Michael_Nielsen_[MSFT]

The instructions generated by the compiler are exactly the same independent of BEGIN / END being used or not. Which also means that there is no speed penalty when the code is executed.

And as Kriki points out database access is where most of the time is spend which makes it a lot more important to write code that is readable than code which executes a couple of milliseconds faster