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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Krazy: prefix vs. postfix ++ and -- operators
From:       Rafał Miłecki <zajec5 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-01-11 15:25:50
Message-ID: AANLkTikQfccCiMPRvqOdPW8RU_L8-EOEMUK0igvcjvL= () mail ! gmail ! com
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2011/1/11 Christoph Feck <christoph@maxiom.de>:
> 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?

Doesn't compiler optimize than anyway, when possible (like inside
for)? I was told that when I tried using post incr. in kernel.

However keeping one coding style is still great thing to think about.

-- 
Rafał

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