RE: [Dev-C++] Use of const qualifier

[Ioannis V. <no...@ho...>]

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> [mailto:dev...@li...] On Behalf 
> Of Scott Williams
> Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 8:38 PM
> To: Abhijit Shylanath; Dev-C++ Mailing List
> Subject: RE: [Dev-C++] Use of const qualifier
> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply--very helpful.  You might know the 
> answer to a related
> question. . .
> 
> I have a math-intensive subroutine that is called millions of 
> times (yes,
> millions) by a numerical algorithm.  Currently, all of the 
> variables in this
> subroutine are of automatic extent.  Would there be any 
> efficiency gained by
> instead giving them static extent?  Each call to the subroutine is
> independent so retaining values across calls is not an issue. 
>  Rather, this
> is a question of how the memory access itself is handled.


Yes. Also if you can make it easy to be inlined things will be more
better. Like:


// C++ code
inline int summary(const int &x, const int &y)
{
 return x+y; 
}


Ioannis

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