Andre Poenitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > As a matter of style, yes, probably. However, for PODs there's no efficiency > > penalty to i-- vis-à-vis --i.
> Urban legend. There's a difference between the 'interesting' cases > whebn iterating downwards (i.e. i-- (!= 0) vs. --i >= 0) > Check your disassembly. > [I did so recently on four different compilers (gcc, msvc, some IRIX 6.5 > and some AXP(?)), and --i >= 0 was uniformly the best, usually saving > two assembler statements and in three cases a used register) Interesting. How about in the common-or-garden case? for (int i = 0; i != 10; i++)... Angus
