Re: Overhead of Shared Subs

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Mick Walker wrote:

I am just wondering, is there some sort of overhead involved in shared or static functions and subs?

No.

I think there must be, otherwise, there would never be any need to create an instance of a class to call one of its member methods., but I would like to know for definate.

You are not thinking object oriented, that's why you don't see the difference.

Instance methods of a class are non-static because they use the data that is stored in the instance. You create the instance to keep data in it, not only to call it's methods.

A method that does not use any data from the instance should be static, so that you don't need to create an unused instance just to call the method.

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