Re: How expensive are exceptions?
on Fri Jun 01 2007, Kr(i?tof ?elechovski <giecrilj-AT-stegny.2a.pl> wrote:
Exceptions are expensive. The compiler must maintain a stack of
catch statements and match the expression object against them.
No, that's just one approach. See
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.c++.moderated/browse_frm/thread/b5288eef67ec6c55
also, http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/1999-q1/msg00016.html gives a good
overview of the main strategies along with a novel alternative. The
range table approach uses the return addresses on the program stack
and program counter to do all the dynamic bookkeeping.
The cost depends on how many unmatching traps are inbetween. My
debugger does not allow me to stop at the handler so I tried to do
it by hand; I was unable to arrive at the handler by stepping the
machine instructions from the throw point because it took too long,
although that effect may be attributed to stack unwinding and object
destruction as well. I think those tens of thousands of
instructions include the cleanup code.
Exceptions should not be used for situations that may happen during
normal execution flow. An example of such abuse is
std::locale::locale(char const []). Yes, I know exceptions are the
recommended way to handle run-time errors in constructors; this
approach seems very unfortunate to me.
It's actually very important in enabling simple class invariants.
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