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[Clyde Forrester]

The DEC PDP line of computers had pre- and post-, increment and 
decrement built in to their op codes. Pretty slick.

The availability of this support is pretty much irrelevant to a high 
level, cross-platform language like Python.

If much higher performance or performance fine tuning is needed, custom 
hardware could be used, as well as customized libraries written in a 
lower level language like C, where those operators would be available, 
and relevant.

c4

Tim Saylor wrote:
> If your algorithm requires a faster increment operator you're probably 
> doing it wrong.
> 
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Joshua Herman <zitterbewegung at gmail.com 
> <mailto:zitterbewegung at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Prefix usage is better to use because postfix uses requires you to
>     create a copy of the variable while prefix usage is much faster and
>     doesn't require the copy I believe.
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>     On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 3:02 PM, David Rock <david at graniteweb.com
>     <mailto:david at graniteweb.com>> wrote:
>      > * Martin Maney <maney at two14.net <mailto:maney at two14.net>>
>     [2011-10-15 21:25]:
>      >> On Sat, Oct 15, 2011 at 04:06:02PM -0500, Joshua Herman wrote:
>      >> > On Oct 15, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Eric Stein wrote:
>      >> > > P.S. Does the lack of increment and decrement operators in
>     Python bug
>      >> > > anyone else?
>      >>
>      >> > Yea, it annoys me too...