On 10/30/05, Laurence Harris <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 10/30/05 4:03 PM, Steve Baxter didst favor us with:
>
> > I would use FSRefs by value here rather than storing pointers, i.e.
> > store the actual FSRefs in the vector rather than a pointer to a
> > FSRef. The overhead of copying 80 bytes will be so small as to be
> > unmeasureable. You may actually find that the copy overhead is less
> > than the malloc() overhead of allocating 80 bytes (but only Shark
> > will tell you).
>
> Except it's not either/or. If you store pointers, such as is the case with a
> CF widget or a vector of FSRef pointers, once you allocate the memory for 80
> bytes, you still have to copy the FSRef into the allocated memory.
And if you don't store pointers, then the STL has to copy the FSRef
into some memory.
Larry
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