Can I use memcpy in C++ to copy classes that have no pointers or virtual functions
- by Shane MacLaughlin
Say I have a class, something like the following;
class MyClass
{
public:
MyClass();
int a,b,c;
double x,y,z;
};
#define PageSize 1000000
MyClass Array1[PageSize],Array2[PageSize];
If my class has not pointers or virtual methods, is it safe to use the following?
memcpy(Array1,Array2,PageSize*sizeof(MyClass));
The reason I ask, is that I'm dealing with very large collections of paged data, as decribed here, where performance is critical, and memcpy offers significant performance advantages over iterative assignment. I suspect it should be ok, as the 'this' pointer is an implicit parameter rather than anything stored, but are there any other hidden nasties I should be aware of?
