Question

Pick out the correct statement.

(a) Pre Increment is faster than post-increment

(b) post-increment is faster than Pre Increment

(c) pre increment is slower than post-increment

(d) pre decrement is slower than post-increment

The question was asked in quiz.

The question is from Increment and Decrement topic in chapter Source Files, Classes and Operator Overloading in C++ of C++

Answer 1

Correct option is (a) Pre Increment is faster than post-increment

To explain I would say: Because Pre Increment take one-byte instruction & post increment takes two-byte instruction.