What looks efficient may not be

[John Cowan]

In article <9146 at csli.Stanford.EDU> poser at csli.Stanford.EDU (Bill Poser) writes:
[in reference to two loops, one of which pre-increments a variable,
and the other post-increments a variable, and nothing else]

>Of course, a smart compiler will recognize that in these examples
>the value of i is never used and will not bother with the save.
>

A >really< smart compiler would recognize that the loops don't do anything
at all, and kill them both!
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