Re: Efficient Parameter passing

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From: Dave Rahardja (ask_at_me.com)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 03:00:17 GMT

Macca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This is a general question to do with efficiency of passing parameters
> betwen functions.
>
> I have a function that requires a number of vectors.
>
> These vectors may be quite large in size so I thought about creating a
> structure that holds the vectors and then passing a pointer to this structure
> to the fuction that needs them.
>
> How would this compare to passing references to each vector, probably 5-6
> vectors needed, as parameters to the function?
>
> I'd appreciate any opinions on these methods of parameter passing and other
> methods.
>
> Thanks In Advance

In C++, passing a reference costs exactly the same as passing a pointer.

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