Best way to return structured data?procedure or function?

Hi everyone.
I cannot choose the best way to return, from java stored procedure, some data.
for example , which is best way to write this method:
public STRUCT function(input parameters) { STRUCT result ... return result; }
or
public void procedure(input parameters, STRUCT[] struct) { STRUCT result ... struct[0] = result; }
in the last way, the wrapper obviously will be: CREATE PROCEDURE name(... IN datatype, data OUT STRUCT)
Which is best way in efficiency ?
thank you ;)

da`,
By "efficiency", I assume you mean, best performance/least time.
In my experience, the only way to discover this is to compare the two, since there are many factors that affect the situation.
Good Luck,
Avi.

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