"Johan Söderlind Åström" <johaa1993@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> The memory footprint of most arrays is insignificant. I usually do this 
>> kind
>> of thing with Strings, and the typical string is only a few dozen bytes.
>> Obviously, if a single array is using most of the memory on the computer,
>> then you don't want to copy it. (But you're not going to pass those as a
>> parameter in the first place.)
>
> I am not? In which way should I pass large arrays?

You don't. There can only be one such array per program, so passing it as a 
parameter just adds overhead. Just use a global data structure somewhere.

                                 Randy.