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I have an object (i.e. an image) that takes up 1MB of memory.
I pass this image into a function, which modifies it.
If I pass this image into the function by reference, would the entire 1MB be copied, or just its place in memory?
Passing by reference creates an alias to the object. The only memory used is the stack space allocated to hold the alias.