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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Access types vs. Record types as procedure parameters
Date: 1999/08/19
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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