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.
next 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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