> I would much rather deal those "myths" than with the class of myths surrounding i++ being faster/lower than ++i or any of the non-sense around divisions.
This is one area I dislike in C and C++ culture, there is this tendency to micro-optimize code like that, without even profiling it, or it causing an actual impact on the application being built.
So one ends up with endless bike shedding discussions about how to write code, instead of writing it.
That is a facet of programming culture. So many programmers in so many languages have their silly myths.
A few years some Ruby dev said that declaring methods without parenthesis would let the Ruby parser parse method declarations faster. The dev never even measured, he just thought the parens were ugly and a ton of gem devs removed parens claiming a speed up. It wasn't until a few years later that someone benchmarked it and determined that there either was no difference or that it cost just the tiniest amount to remove them.
This is one area I dislike in C and C++ culture, there is this tendency to micro-optimize code like that, without even profiling it, or it causing an actual impact on the application being built.
So one ends up with endless bike shedding discussions about how to write code, instead of writing it.