Plural of autodecrement; multiple automatic reduction operations on variables or values in programming.
From autodecrement + -s (plural marker). This plural form allows discussion of multiple autodecrement operations within a program.
A tight loop using autodecrements is one of the most efficient ways to count down in programming—it's so fundamental that every programming language since the 1960s has included some version of this operation because it's both fast and intuitive.
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