> I try to reference all the things all the time, cause its ingrained in my brain as more efficient than copying stuff around or/and requesting things from hash

> I try to reference all the things all the time, cause its ingrained in my brain as more efficient than copying stuff around or/and requesting things from hashmaps. Many people don't realize that actually referencing all the things all the time is LESS efficient than copying stuff around on modern architectures, unless you copy really big things. This is because the majority of improvement of memory access in the recent years is seen in sequential speeds but not latency.