Returning Large Objects from a Function Efficiently and Safely

Returning Large Objects from a Function Efficiently and Safely

“getter” member functions usually return a result by value. However, when the returned value is a large object, a string for example, returning it by value can be very inefficient. Returning the result by reference rather than by value, as in:

 string & Person::get_name(){ return name;}

solves the overhead problem. Alas, this technique isn

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