I only have a little coding experience in C, and I remember I was told that pass by reference is more efficient than pass by value since the parameters don't need to be copied. Since there is no pass by reference in Mathematica, I'm wondering does that affect the performance of function calls, especially when dealing with large data?

I only have a little coding experience in C, and I remember I was told that pass by reference is more efficient than pass by value since the parameters don't need to be copied. Since there is no pass by reference in Mathematica, I'm wondering if that affects the performance of function calls, especially when dealing with large data?

I only have a few coding experience in C, and I remember I was told that pass by reference is efficient than pass by value since the parameters don't need to be copied. Since there is no pass by reference in Mathematica, I'm wondering does that effect the performance of function call, especially when dealing with large data? Thanks.

I only have a little coding experience in C, and I remember I was told that pass by reference is more efficient than pass by value since the parameters don't need to be copied. Since there is no pass by reference in Mathematica, I'm wondering does that affect the performance of function calls, especially when dealing with large data?