On Saturday, 14 March 2015 at 10:11:27 UTC, Casper Færgemand
wrote:
What exactly is the downside of i++? Suppose the compiler
doesn't lower it and I use the expression alone, what is the
potential damage?
You need to store a temporary of the value pre increment to be
returned. But it doesn't matter as any compiler will optimize it
away if you don't use it.
But, for some reason, the topic come up again and again from C++
devs that have no idea the optimization guys solved the issues
for years now.
