Analysis the performance of pointers and variables in memory accessing using a programming language on various architectures
Rinku Saini · International Journal of Advances in Engineering Sciences (RG Journals of Scientific Research) · 2013
Now a day‟s all high level programming languages are object oriented. All of the languages make use of variables to store data that is volatile. Some of the programming language uses pointers to refer the data, objects or functions etc. Both variable and pointers can be use in various operations of the programming language that will access the memory. Here we have implemented a c/c++ programming to analyze the performance of variables and pointers on various Intel, AMD architectures in accessing the memory. The program that shows the accessing mechanism of a pointer as well as a variable to access memory and verify the performance on various architectures. This paper represents how a pointer variable differ in performance as compared to a variable simply defined in memory access and shows the dependency on the processing speed of the architecture and various other factors.