copies are faster if you don't change the copied data since no copy is
actually done. It is a shallow copy also know as a copy-on-write so you
should just pass a copy in your case, I bet.
-Rasmus
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Tino Didriksen wrote:
> Is it just me, or is working with references slow?
>
> I have functions that loop through about 1 lines of text, generating
> stats on the content.
>
> When I pass the lines to the function normally, this takes 0.8 seconds.
> Passing by reference, or as a reference, both increase the time to 6
> seconds.
>
> Meaning that working with references takes 750% the time.
>
> In my head, making a copy should be slowest, but apparently referencing is
> far slower...
> Am I missing a point anywhere?
>
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