Does it make a difference in performance if I use self.fooBar instead of fooBar?
- by mystify
Note: I know exactly what a property is. This question is about performance.
Using self.fooBar for READ access seems a waste of time for me. Unnecessary Objective-C messaging is going on. The getters typically simply pass along the ivar, so as long as it's pretty sure there will be no reasonable getter method written, I think it's perfectly fine to bypass this heavy guy.
Objective-C messaging is about 20 times slower than direct calls. So if there is some high-performance-high-frequency code with hundreds of properties in use, maybe it does help a lot to avoid unnessessary objective-c messaging?
Or am I wasting my time thinking about this?