# Does this-\> slow down your program?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-this-slow-down-your-program/286387>\
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**Created:** [April 14, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-this-slow-down-your-program/286387 "2009-04-14T21:07:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 9:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/does-this-slow-down-your-program/286387/1 "2009-04-14T21:07:10Z")

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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.