Organizing Structures
You can optimize structures’ efficiency with a little bit of work. This work is related to the order in which you implement members within a structure. For example, consider the following code:
Public Structure VariousMembers Public Property anInteger As Integer Public Property aByte As Byte Public Property aShort As ShortEnd Structure
Notice in which order the members are exposed. Because of their memory allocation in bytes, it’s preferable to expose members in the order of bytes they require. This is a revisited, more efficient version of the structure:
Public Structure VariousMembers Public Property aByte As Byte Public Property aShort As Short ...
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