I am trying to show by example that the prefix increment is more efficient than the postfix increment.
In theory this makes sense: i++ needs to be able to return the unincremented original value and therefore store it, whereas ++i can return the incremented value without storing the previous value.
But is there a good example to show this in practice?
I tried the following code:
int array[100];
int main()
{
for(int i = 0; i < sizeof(array)/sizeof(*array); i++)
array[i] = 1;
}
I compiled it using gcc 4.4.0 like this:
gcc -Wa,-adhls -O0 myfile.cpp
I did this again, with the postfix increment changed to a prefix increment:
for(int i = 0; i < sizeof(array)/sizeof(*array); ++i)
The result is identical assembly code in both cases.
This was somewhat unexpected. It seemed like that by turning off optimizations (with -O0) I should see a difference to show the concept. What am I missing? Is there a better example to show this?
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