[kristopolous]

Alright ... I didn't mean this to be confusing ... here I'll remove that --- I was referring the whole class of languages which are more driven by purist theory than by practical need. There's quite a few that only support pass-by-value intentionally

[Jweb_Guru]

C only supports pass-by-value (unless I missed something recent) and it's generally not considered a pure functional language.

[anonymoushn]

C lets you make pointers to arbitrary things, so even if you somehow had a value containing your 1GB buffer, you could pass a pointer to it instead of copying it around.

[kristopolous]

sorry ... it's 340 am ... i'm screwing up my english. alright ... i'm going to stop replying.