🧠 Code Micro Tips

Small, practical programming tips to write cleaner, faster, and more maintainable code.
Each tip focuses on micro-optimizations, readability improvements, or subtle language behaviors.

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📂 Structure

Folder	Description
general/	Tips that apply across all programming languages (naming, readability, design).
php/	Language-specific micro-optimizations, syntax tricks, and best practices.

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🧩 Example Tip

Prefer prefix increment (++i) over postfix (i++)

In most languages (C, C++, Java, PHP, JavaScript, etc.), ++i increments the variable and returns the new value directly,
while i++ returns a copy of the old value, then increments — creating an unnecessary temporary object.

// ✅ Faster — increments directly
++i;

// ❌ Slightly slower — returns old value before incrementing
i++;

📊 Impact:

Negligible in high-level code, but measurable in tight loops or performance-critical sections (e.g. millions of iterations in C/Java).

💡 Rule of thumb:

Use ++i when you don’t need the previous value. Use i++ only if you explicitly need the value before incrementing.

🚀 Goal

Collect small but valuable insights that make code:

• More efficient ⚡
• More readable 📖
• More maintainable 🔧