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From: Shriramana Sharma <jamadagni@gmail.com>
To: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org
Subject: efficiency in passing a value to a function
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:43:28 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4613DCB8.8030007@gmail.com> (raw)

Hello.

Is providing an input to a function by constant reference more efficient 
than passing it by value? In what way.

For ex:

int addOne ( const & int inValue ) { return inValue + 1 ; }

vs:

int addOne ( int inValue ) { return inValue + 1 ; }

or:

void printThis ( const & int inValue ) { cout << inValue ; }

vs:

void printThis ( int inValue ) { cout << inValue ; }

I think passing as const & would be more efficient since passing by 
value would involve copying the value whereas passing by const & would 
skip this step. Am I right? Or is there something else?

Thanks in advance.

Shriramana Sharma.



             reply	other threads:[~2007-04-04 17:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-04 17:13 Shriramana Sharma [this message]
2007-04-04 18:27 ` efficiency in passing a value to a function Glynn Clements
2007-04-11 21:44   ` Adam Dyga
2007-04-04 18:38 ` Steve Graegert
2007-04-05 12:05   ` Glynn Clements
2007-04-05 13:02     ` Steve Graegert
2007-04-08 15:17       ` Shriramana Sharma
2007-04-13 17:23         ` Glynn Clements
2007-04-14 13:15         ` Adam Dyga
2007-04-08 14:45   ` Shriramana Sharma
2007-04-13 17:51     ` Glynn Clements

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