hello.java

public class JTestbuild
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
	int i = 0;
	while(i < 14)
		 {
		     switch(i)
			 {
			 case(0):
			     System.out.print("H");
			     break;
			 case(1):
			     System.out.print("e");
			     break;
			 case(2):
			     System.out.print("l");
			     break;
			 case(3):
			     System.out.print("l");
			     break;
			 case(4):
			     System.out.print("o");
			     break;
			 case(5):
			     System.out.print(",");
			     break;
			 case(6):
			     System.out.print(" ");
			     break;
			 case(7):
			     System.out.print("w");
			     break;
			 case(8):
			     System.out.print("o");
			     break;
			 case(9):
			     System.out.print("r");
			     break;
			 case(10):
			     System.out.print("l");
			     break;
			 case(11):
			     System.out.print("d");
			     break;
			 case(12):
			     System.out.print("!");
			     break;
			 case(13):
			     System.out.print("\n");
			     break;
			 }
		     ++i;
		 }
    }
}

Can't tell you right now if it's faster, but maybe try String hw = "hello, world"; and then use charAt(i) in the loop. It's shorter and easy to read.

legendary