Krazy: prefix vs. postfix ++ and -- operators
Christoph Feck
christoph at maxiom.de
Tue Jan 11 15:16:23 GMT 2011
Krazy says:
"You should use ++ and -- as prefix whenever possible as these are more
efficient than postfix operators. Prefix increments first and then uses the
variable, postfix uses the actual; the variable is incremented as well.
Because of this, the prefix operators are inherently more efficient."
Considering that today's CPUs have multiple pipelines, using a value directly
seems faster to me than waiting for it to be incremented or decremented.
Is this krazy warning still correct?
Christoph Feck (kdepepo)
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