by reference parameters

[Richard Gaskin]

Alex Rice wrote:

> I was just doing some transcript tests and I can't see a speed
> difference between a handler with regular params vs by-reference
> parameters. Am I a correct that @params aren't used for optimization?

The engine's so fast that I doubt the time needed to copy the var would be
noticeable until you get to a chunk of data that's really, really large.

But if you're optimizing for memory conservation it can be a big help for
large params, since you only have one copy in memory with by-ref params.

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