in reply to Re^4: Summing Up Array Elements By Group
in thread Summing Up Array Elements By Group

it was normally not a problem for integers.

I find it odd that it would matter at all for ints.

++a --- inc a mov a, reg a++ --- mov a, reg inc a

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Re^6: Summing Up Array Elements By Group
by gwadej (Chaplain) on Jan 21, 2009 at 20:32 UTC

    It doesn't matter for ints. But, for various kinds of iterators and other classes supporting ++ it can. (I guess I didn't make that clear.)

    That's why the suggested practice in C++ lately has been to use ++a unless you actually need the previous value. That way when you replace that index with an iterator things don't get any slower.

    G. Wade