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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:37:25 -0400, Hyman Rosen wrote:
> The usual bit
> about stepping through an array by pointer instead of index, but that's
> not a requirement in C, merely an optimization.

And not even that most of the time. Turning an index into a point has
been standard in optimizing compilers for at least a decade.