Charlie Martin
Nov 7 · 1 min read

The real reason for plus plus originally was that it made efficient use of the auto increment addressing modes on the PDP 11. Whether you use prefix or post fix now should be an issue of expressing what you mean. Worrying about the additional memory usage before you have even monitor the code is really a perfect example of Knuth’s “premature optimization is the root of all evil.”

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