> Given two solutions:
[...]
>
> Assuming that there are (a lot) more other members and
> methods in both classes (which are accessed within the
> class, not cross-class), and further assuming that
> the A class is being instantiated a *lot*:
> What would the runtime impact of these two approaches considering
> CPU time and memory used?
>
> I would guess that solution 1 would be slightly more
> efficient, both memory and CPU-wise.
Correct; in solution 2 class A will need the parent pointer
to resolve C at runtime.
> Or am I overlooking something here where due to the
> nested stack frames of solution 1, the actual CPU
> or memory usage is higher than expected?
Doubtful.
/grubba
