C++ and Java CNI: Check Java references

Mark Mitchell mark@codesourcery.com
Wed Apr 25 10:15:00 GMT 2001


>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com> writes:

    Tom> * Is there a performance impact for using references instead
    Tom> of pointers as arguments to methods?  It's hard to believe
    Tom> there would be one, but I don't know for certain.

No.  In fact, some things should theoretically go better: the compiler
knows that references are never NULL.

    Tom> I think this approach does handle the nonvirtual method call
    Tom> problem, because operator-> must still be used to compute
    Tom> `this'.

I didn't understand this problem, I guess.

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