From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Access types vs. Record types as procedure parameters
Date: 1999/08/19
Date: 1999-08-19T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Aug19.170847.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 37BC4F12.E33D50EE@gbr.msd.ray.com
In article <37BC4F12.E33D50EE@gbr.msd.ray.com>, Andrew L Moore {66003} <alm@gbr.msd.ray.com> writes:
> I am looking for the way that would provide the greatest speed of
> execution. I know that passing a pointer to an object of a record type
> is more efficient that passing the record itself,
No, you cannot know that if you are using a compiler. The machine
instructions generated to perform what you program are entirely up
to the compiler. It knows what calling techniques are efficient,
probably better than you do.
Larry KIlgallen
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1999-08-19 0:00 Access types vs. Record types as procedure parameters Andrew L Moore {66003}
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-08-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
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