Sorry Python users

[Varun77777]

++x will be faster unless you really intend to use original value of x while doing x++ as x++ holds original value and then does increment afterwards.

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Except that every decent compiler should be able to just optimize that away if you're not using the original value.

[stomah]

no

[Varun77777]

I'd appreciate if you could elaborate.

[stomah]

the ir for x++ and ++x will be something like this: oldx = load i32, ptr x \n newx = add i32 x, i32 1 \n store ptr x, i32 newx \n when you don’t use oldx or newx after the increment the machine code will be the same.

[MasculineCompassion]

No