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Most computers have a conditional branch instruction that tests the sign of a value in a register, or the sign of the result of the most recent arithmetic operation.
One can use that instruction, which is usually faster than a comparison against some arbitrary value ( requiring a subtraction ), to implement the command " If i ≤ 0, then exit the loop ".
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