Just a curious question, is all. Are there any performance differences if I prefer to use properties or setter-getter functions for basic simple assignment and return calls?
Which one do you guys prefer?
There are no performance differences since both are function calls. It’s just syntactical sugar.
The last part of your question shouldn’t be asked on this site. See the FAQs.
In general: properties should only be used when the function behind the property can be determined by the property’s name or when it really just wraps a variable. Otherwise it just makes the code more cryptical since you can’t see what happens behind the scenes.