Getters and Setters. Is there performance overhead?

Question

I have a Particle System Engine in my C++ project and the particles themselves are just structs of variables with no functions. Currently, each particle (Particle) is updated fr

Answer 1

Getters and setters allow your code to evolve more easily in the future, if getting and setting turn out to be slightly more complicated tasks. Most C++ compilers are smart enough to inline those simple methods and eliminate the overhead of the function call.