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MySQL Stored Procedure Programming
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MySQL Stored Procedure Programming

by Guy Harrison, Steven Feuerstein
March 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
640 pages
17h 8m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Optimizing Loops

In the remainder of this chapter we will look at techniques for the optimization of stored program code that does not involve SQL statements, starting with the optimization of loops .

Because the statements executed within a loop can be executed many times, optimizing loop processing is a basic step when optimizing the performance of a program written in any language. The MySQL stored program language is no exception.

Move Unnecessary Statements Out of a Loop

The first principle of optimizing a loop is to move calculations out of the loop that don't belong inside the loop (these are known as loop-invariant statements , since they do not vary with each execution of the loop body). Although such a step might seem obvious, it's surprising how often a program will perform calculations over and over within a loop that could have been performed just once before the start of loop execution.

For instance, consider the stored program in Example 22-9. This loop is actually fairly inefficient, but at first glance it's not easy to spot where the problem is. Fundamentally, the problem with this stored program is that it calculates the square root of the i variable for every value of the j variable. Although there are only 1,000 different values of i, the stored program calculates this square root five million times.

Example 22-9. A poorly constructed loop

 WHILE (i<=1000) DO SET j=1; WHILE (j<=5000) DO SET rooti=sqrt(i); SET rootj=sqrt(j); SET sumroot=sumroot+rooti+rootj; SET ...
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