RESULTS:
increment decrement pointer
286 6MHz, 1 million zeros: 50.53us 51.36us 54.81us
486 50MHz, l0 million zeros: 1.21us 1.16us 1.08us
486-50 using Microsoft C 6.0 increment decrement pointer
1.04 1.04 0.93
Sun SPARCserver 1000 using Sun C compiler fully optimized
0.06 0.08 0.06