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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14869314

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I guess you ask for C++. There Type* can be null while Type& can't be null. When it gets compiled Type& is compiled (mostly) to the same machinecode as Type*.