Is there a performance difference between i++ and ++i in C++?

Question

We have the question is there a performance difference between i++ and ++i in C?

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Answer 1

The intended question was about when the result is unused (that's clear from the question for C). Can somebody fix this since the question is "community wiki"?

About premature optimizations, Knuth is often quoted. That's right. but Donald Knuth would never defend with that the horrible code which you can see in these days. Ever seen a = b + c among Java Integers (not int)? That amounts to 3 boxing/unboxing conversions. Avoiding stuff like that is important. And uselessly writing i++ instead of ++i is the same mistake. EDIT: As phresnel nicely puts it in a comment, this can be summed up as "premature optimization is evil, as is premature pessimization".

Even the fact that people are more used to i++ is an unfortunate C legacy, caused by a conceptual mistake by K&R (if you follow the intent argument, that's a logical conclusion; and defending K&R because they're K&R is meaningless, they're great, but they aren't great as language designers; countless mistakes in the C design exist, ranging from gets() to strcpy(), to the strncpy() API (it should have had the strlcpy() API since day 1)).

Btw, I'm one of those not used enough to C++ to find ++i annoying to read. Still, I use that since I acknowledge that it's right.