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Re: **FIRST EMAIL**/Java and Orbit Balls

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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The efficiency is not what you suggest it is. Pointer arithmetic adds the result of a multiplication too: addition and subtraction are scaled by the size of the structure pointed to.

But, at least in C, the size of the structure is a known quantity at compile time, so I would imagine that most of the time that multiplication can be eliminated by the compiler. And then on top of that, sometimes the multiplication will be by a power of 2, so the compiler will use a cheap shift operation.

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