Re: Singletons / classes with only one member
My concern is more about code clarity/simplicity than performance.
On Feb 27, 4:36 pm, Immortal Nephi <Immortal_Ne...@hotmail.com> wrote:
On Feb 27, 2:30 pm, W Karas <wka...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Suppose you have a class that has only one instance, and there is
little reason to think it would ever make sense for the class to have
more than one instance. What are some criteria for deciding whether
it should even be a class? For example, does:
I ask myself the same question. You refer one instance. You mean on=
e
variable per running program in memory. For example like procedural
programming.
// Header.h
int g_variable = 0; // Global Variable
void foo(int &g_v)
{
g_v++;
}
void foo2()
{
g_variable++;
}
// Main.cpp
#include "Header.h"
int main()
{
int var = 20;
foo(var); 1% slower
g_variable = var;
foo2(); // Faster
return 0;
}
According to my performance test. foo2() is faster than foo() because
it has fewer x86 instructions than foo() does. It looks like that 200
global functions do not have reference are able to modify g_variable
directly. One problem is that you don't know which global function
modify g_variable. It is a good design unless you wrap 200 global
functions and 10 global variables inside file scope. I am sure that
everyone agree to be a bad design, but critical performance is
important.
I think this could come out differently depending on the machine
architecture. Aren't there some architectures that are optimized for
the addressing mode of "register value + 16-bit immediate offset"?
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