It has nothing to do with efficiency. Insofar as Bassman9000's example indicates a real problem (and there are a couple of ways it might do so, ultimately leadi

It has nothing to do with efficiency. Insofar as Bassman9000's example indicates a real problem (and there are a couple of ways it might do so, ultimately leading back to the poor use of abstraction and separation-of-concerns), stuffing the arguments (or any other weakly-related collection of variables) into an ad-hoc struct (or object) having no real cohesion is simply sweeping the dust under the rug, and is just as indicative of a likely design problem as are long argument lists of nominally unrelated data.