The Atom Consists of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons

[Zach the Mystic]

On Tuesday, 5 February 2013 at 01:41:23 UTC, Marco Leise wrote:
> Just one note on your Sparky example (from the ASM point of
> view): Instead of passing in a pointer to each struct member
> (wagTheDog(sparky, sparky.bodi, sparky.bodi.tail);) you could
> pass in only 'sparky' as the rest are known offsets from
> sparky. It works because it is a POD. If bodi was a reference,
> sparky.bodi.tail would still have to be passed in.

I think this is a great optimization, provided Sparky has only 
one body and only one tail, which may actually be rather easy to 
verify statically.