Re: [boost] Postfix Increment Operator

From: Terje Slettebø (tslettebo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-06-11 12:26:32

>From: "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" <larsbj_at_[hidden]>

>"David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_[hidden]> writes:

>| From: "Lars Gullik Bjønnes" <larsbj_at_[hidden]>
>>
>>> When testing this and the prev. version with gcc, I get a 2:3
>>> perfomance difference in favour of the traditional solution.
>>>
>>> Gcc 3.1 -O3
>>> ./postincr
>>> Number1: 6650000
>>> Number2: 9900000
>>
>| That's not surprising. What happens when you try the version that
actually
>| returns the postfix_incrementer<number> instead of the number?
>
>No difference.

I also wondered about all the hoopla and eagerness of adding this to Boost,
why nobody had bothered to check if it improved performance, in practice.

Regards,

Terje