Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!isis!ebergman
From: ebergman@isis.cs.du.edu (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Efficiency Question
Message-ID: <1991Mar1.014046.20503@isis.cs.du.edu>
Date: 1 Mar 91 01:40:46 GMT
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Reply-To: ebergman@isis.UUCP (Eric Bergman-Terrell)
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Back when I was programming C on a PDP-11 many of those C shortcuts
(esp. pre & post increment) often did result in smaller and faster code.

I expect that as optimizing compilers improve, semantically equivalent
blocks of code will tend to result in the same sequence of machine
instructions.

Terrell