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G'Day Paul,
-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to Frank Adam <=-
FA> Does passing a pointer to a function effect performance, as opposed to
FA> having the contents of said pointer global or local ?
PE> IMO, having a local function will ALWAYS be faster than or equal to
PE> the speed of a global function which will ALWAYS be faster than a
PE> pointer to a function. Basically, having a local (and
PE> preferably static) function means AT COMPILE TIME, the
That was going to be my next question actually :-)
I didn't word the original question all that well, i should've said
passing a VARIABLE between a number of functions as opposed to the
functions using a global. I figure passing a variable would have to take
a few cycles, unless the compiler does something magical.
L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).
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