> On Feb 1, 2023, at 8:16 PM, Adriaan van Os via fpc-devel > <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > Because, if e.g. the byte-size of a parameter is such that it fits into a CPU > register, then passing the parameter itself is more efficient than passing a > reference to it. For large byte-size parameters, const and constref function > the same. The difference is with small byte-size parameters.
Hmmm I was told otherwise by one of the compiler devs and that I should use constref if I want to guarantee it will not be copied. Maybe one of them can confirm this…. I tried to use https://godbolt.org/ but my program doesn’t seem to be producing any output... Regards, Ryan Joseph _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
