Re: [Quantlib-dev] [QuantLib-svn] SF.net SVN: quantlib: [11869] trunk/QuantLib

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 09:28 -0700, fd...@us... wrote:
> Revision: 11869
>           http://quantlib.svn.sourceforge.net/quantlib/?rev=11869&view=rev
> Author:   fdv1
> Date:     2007-07-11 09:28:06 -0700 (Wed, 11 Jul 2007)
> 
> Log Message:
> -----------
> CashFlows::npv signature changed to avoid useless dynamic memory
> allocation. 
> As a general rule I think that it might be a good practice to
> dereference pointers or Handles as early as possible so we can use
> plain reference later on. This would save indirections and remove the
> need to store objects systematically in the heap.

Well, most objects will have to be on the heap anyway since that's the
only way to store them as data members and keep polymorphic behavior.
But you're right, we can use references when we pass them as function
arguments. However, we'll have to find a less clumsy syntax than
*handle.currentLink(). Let me look into it...

Later,
	Luigi


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