On Thursday 09 October 2008 12:01, Neil N. Carlson wrote:
> So if reducing runtime overhead is of prime importance, it
> would be better to use procedure pointer components instead
> where necessary.
But Bill made an important point: If you have lots of objects of the same
type, say an array, you don't want to be fetching the same address N times.
The memory traffic overhead is much worse than a simple additional
de-reference amortized over the whole array.
Aleks
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