On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Exception handling is a powerful feature, and makes other global error > strategies mostly unnecessary. Therefore the size of compiled and well > written C++ programs will not be larger than an equivalent C program. *And* > the source code will be much cleaner, as you don't have to nest if() > statements or such things.
Actually egcs just has a gross implementation of exceptions, the overhead added for the stack unwinding is horribly high, I have't looked too deeply but it may be a fixed overhead per-function and then some added stuff depending on the function's content so if you have lots of small functions you get burned really badly. As I said before, the exception handling information doubles the size of my binaries (+100k, + 240k, etc) which is pretty bad. Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
