I was wonder what is the performance hit of passing pointers. And I figured instead of passing pointers all the time, maybe I can define a pointer member and use that instead. I wouldn''t mind experimenting and trying for myself, but in my game I have many class templates and that would take hours to change my function parameters carefully without making a mistake. Would it be worth the performance increase. I don''t know if I am alone, but I am learning alot as I program causing me to do huge changes. class person { public: function1(int *ptr); function2(int *ptr); function3(int *ptr); function4(int *ptr); function5(int *ptr); function6(int *ptr); function7(int *ptr); function8(int *ptr); function9(int *ptr); } ///////////////////////////////// VS-VS-SV ////////////////////////////////// class person { public: person(){ptr = &addressOfSomeVariable} function1(); function2(); function3(); function4(); function5(); function6(); function7(); function8(); function9(); private: int *ptr } Thanks Alot Robert

Any second opinions?(No offense) I have huge classes with functions that pass the same variable.

[edited by - dr_slash_uh on January 7, 2004 8:00:20 PM]

Passing a pointer should take not take any more or less time than passing any type of the same size. Often times pointers (or references) are passed to increase performance where the pointer is significantly smaller than the type (for example - a pointer to a class).

Now that that has been said, what you are trying to do is pointless. It also seems like your method of improving performance is actually slower.

Yea, the pointer actually points to another class. Thanks for the input.

Robert