[Solved] Which one takes up more memory: 4 reals or 1 rect?

[Rui]

Hello there.
I've been tinkering with structs for the past few months and have ran across a doubt: which one will take more memory: 4 reals or 1 rect? The reals are the rect's minX,minY,maxX,maxY.

    real minx
    real miny
    real maxx
    real maxy

Using a rect also makes the create function shorter, but I will only create a fix number of these structs and they'll last for the entire game.


Thank you in advance!

 

[Spartipilo]

Rect also includes the creation and handling of the region behind it. I think that working with the 4 reals is faster.

 

[Dr Super Good]

The 4 reals are probably more memory efficient because they avoid all the extra object maintenence complexity which a rect needs. The reals might map directly to positions in a hash table meaning no extra memory usage unless they cause the hashtable to grow.