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From: robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com
Subject: Re: Pointer Arithmetic (was: Wanted: Ada STL....)
Date: 1999/02/03
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In article <797na3$obg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
  adam@irvine.com wrote:
> Pointer arithmetic can be efficient when you're trying to
> step through an array, since you don't have to keep
> multiplying an index by a constant value to access the
> array elements.

Please don't guess at something like this without looking
at generated code. Any half-way decent compiler will be
able to strength reduce these multiplications in a typical
loop and produce code that is EXACTLY as efficient as the
low level encoding in C, if not more efficient, depending
on the machine.

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