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Nick Keighley wrote:

> On 22 Jul, 09:39, Jean-Pierre Rosen <ro...@adalog.fr> wrote:
>> Gautier a �crit :
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> > [this] comes from the time of
>> > non-optimizing compilers for PC's - around 20 years ago. At that time a
>> > i++ was faster than a i:= i + 1, sure. But it was long long time ago.
>> > Never heard of GCC ?...
>>
>> When I started working on a (Pascal) compiler, this optimization was the
>> first one I introduced in the compiler, because it was the easiest one
>> to do. And it was 30 years ago...
> 
> Pascal has a ++ operator?

No, but it has an opportunity to optimise `i := i + 1;` to the same code
as a C compiler might have compiled `i++` into.

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