Re: assignment operator implementation
"Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)"
<SeeWebsiteForEmail@erdani.org> writes:
Exception safety has a price, no doubt about it.
No, it doesn't! The C++ standard library exception-safety
specification imposes no overhead in principle over the earlier
version that specified undefined behavior if user-supplied operations
threw.
[Furthermore, the alternative is a broken program; nothing is as
expensive as that :) ]
The copy-and-swap idiom is safe and elegant, but it must be
understood that it comes with a price tag.
.....and that it's not synonymous with "exception safety." I can
implement a basic-guarantee (exception-safe) assignment that doesn't
use copy-and-swap. I can also implement strong-guarantee operations
that don't involve a copy-and-swap or any cost beyond that of the
most-efficient exception-unsafe versions.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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