C++ and Java CNI: Check Java references

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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