Can passing an object to a method increase performance over sending individual parameters

Question

I am assigned to a job of optimizing performance of an Application.

Often it is needed to pass 16-25 parameters to the constructor, and setting them there. I want to create a class & object for this and set these values to the object and then pass. It will be good to read. But will it do any good to my task (i.e performance optimization)?

Answer 1

It might improve the performance slightly, but the main benefit would be increasing the readability of your code. A constructor with 16-25 parameters is not readable, and very hard to use.

Of course, you should only introduce new classes that make sense (i.e. the parameters are related to each other). There's no point is shoving 15-26 unrelated parameters to one class just for the sake of passing them to a constructor.

Answer 2

Performance differences deriving from this, if any, are very unlikely to be noticeable.

If your task is to solve performance problems, then your first job is to locate where the problems are. You do that by profiling the application. Have you done that and has it demonstrated that the problem is in the parameter passing ?