On Thursday 02 October 2008 07:35:09 NotFound wrote: > I think will be better the other way, using the return value to flag > existence, and passing a pointer to store the result. This will allow > shorter and cleaner code.
A 5% improvement in some subsystems is nice, but nothing else uses out parameters in this way. I suggest we leave the idea as a potential improvement (and look for other ways to speed up all code). -- c
