C# Setting a maximum / minimum return of an Int or Float

Question

I'm looking to control the output of values to always be below (X) without calling an argument every time ::

Small Example~

public int CurrentSpeed;
public int MaxSpeed;
private int caracceleration;
private int Blarg;

public int CarAcceleration{
    get{ 
        Blarg = CurrentSpeed + caracceleration;
        if(Blarg >= MaxSpeed){
            Blarg = MaxSpeed
        }

        return Blarg

    set;
    }

Is there a better way to do this without calling arguments every time?? Sadly as the amount and complexity of numbers increase (I'm using 3d arrays of values in my code) this becomes a light bottleneck

Answer 1

public int Speed
{
  get
  {
     return CurrentSpeed + CarAcceleration;
  {
}

public int CarAcceleration{
    get
    { 
        if(Speed >= MaxSpeed)
        {
            return MaxSpeed
        }

        return Speed;
    }
    set;
    }

I guess you can roll up the calculations to avoid repeating the summations in multiple places.

I recommend avoiding premature optimization. Based on your example it doesn't seem like performance will be much of an issue. Are you actually seeing performance problems?

Answer 2

Right now you're doing the addition twice. I would do this:

get{ 
        var newSpeed = CurrentSpeed + CarAcceleration;
        if( newSpeed >= MaxSpeed){
            return MaxSpeed;
        }
        else{
            return newSpeed;
        }
}

In hindsight, a cleaner version of this code would be:

get{ 
        var newSpeed = CurrentSpeed + CarAcceleration;
        if( newSpeed >= MaxSpeed){
            newSpeed = MaxSpeed;
        }

        return newSpeed;
}