finding about move vs copy in C++
Anthony Shipman
als@iinet.net.au
Wed Dec 31 10:55:00 GMT 2014
On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 09:18:35 pm Jonathan Wakely wrote:
> What exactly are you worried about, the compiler failing to perform
> moves, or your code missing opportunities to move?
>
> The former will very rarely be a problem, the latter can be solved by
> understanding the language better.
>
Well there's the rub. When there may or may not be an automatically generated
move assignment or constructor and the compiler may or may not choose a move
based on the risk of an exception being thrown and with the return value
optimisation etc it's rather difficult to predict exactly what will happen.
Since this is a static decision it would be nice if the compiler could tell
me. Otherwise I have to step through it in gdb to find out what method it is
using.
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