Optimization. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 1:35 AM, shady <sinv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why do we use pointers at all considering space as a factor.... other than > allocating memory dynamically does it have any other use ? > > to store an integer > (int *) = 8 bytes, and while making it point to an integer location would > cost another 4 bytes, total = 12 bytes ... compared to directly taking > (int) = 4 bytes > > -- > > > --
