[openbeos] Re: Pointer or reference?

> 
> On 2004-03-28 at 18:54:08 [+0200], Jared Eldredge wrote:
> > references seem a bit more efficient to me:  pointers require 
> > allocation of 
> > a 4 byte space,
> > initialization to the address to which they point and dereferencing 
> > takes a 
> > small amount of extra
> > time.
> 
> Er, how do you think references work internally?
> 
> CU, Ingo
> 

my bad - my reaction was based on thinking that pointers would be 
allocated in the heap and references would be allocated in the stack.  
just plain wrong - so i suppose their wont be any real difference.

-jared

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