C++ iterators & loop optimization

Question

I see a lot of c++ code that looks like this:

for( const_iterator it = list.begin(),
     const_iterator ite = list.end();
     it != ite; ++it)

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Answer 1

Aah, people seem to be making guesses. Open up your code in the debugger & you will see that the calls to begin(), end() etc everything is optimized away. There is no need to use version 1. Tested with Visual C++ compiler fullopt.