does this-> slow down your program?

[NeoDreamer]

Does using "this->" slow down your program because it has to dereference a pointer? Or does the compiler understand and automatically remove all of this->? I just like putting this-> for clearly differenciating local variables and member fields.

[MTsoul]

There is no additional overhead by using ->, but you get overhead regardless since the program has to dereference it at run time.

NeoDreamer, I suggest you pick up a book on C++ and breeze through it. It seems like you've got the basic down, but are curious about some syntax-related stuff.