Hmmm....I hadn't thought about that....In testing it is(!).

A 1 to 1000000 loop is faster that 1000000 to 1. 3.30 seconds vs. 3.35....


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>Going from the first character to the last in the loop rather than the last in the first. I thought, mistakenly as it turns out, that incrementing the loop positively (from 1 to n) would be faster than decrementing it (from n to 1). No ig deal.:-)