Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
>>> This is actually not only a small-system concern. If you're dealing
>>> with lots of data, like gigabytes, each layer of buffering costs a
>>> lot, even on today's typical server machines. If you do the typical
>>> small-data decoupling between layers, which consists of a lot of
>>> copying of data from one layer's object structure to the next
>>> layer's object structure, you can easily end up with a dozen of
>>> objects where data is copied without need.
>>
>> Have you guys ever heard of passing data by reference?
>
> Short answer: No... can you please explain?
>
> Longer answer: You know enough about my background that it could have
> occurred to you that I do have heard about this, and that probably there
> is a reason why I didn't consider it in the scenario I was talking
> about.

Gerhard, you know I mean no offense. It was a rhetoric question. We were 
talking about small systems, so what you said above did not make sense in 
the context. I gave you a chance to clarify (and you did).

Vitaliy 

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