Re: Oozing poison
Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
On 01/28/12 09:29 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Miles Bader<miles@gnu.org> writes:
Ian Collins<ian-news@hotmail.com> writes:
The only performance impact I have ever measured from the use of
exceptions is improvement. I have been testing compilers since the mid
90s and I have only found one compiler/platform (that compiler refused
to inline any function that could throw) where exceptions had a
detrimental impact on performance.
Yeah, generally exceptions are very cheap these days, probably cheaper
than equivalently-safe explicit-return-value-checking code. I guess
some of the people decrying them may be remembering some of the
initial naive implementations using setjmp/longjmp (OK, I guess the
exception handling in MS's 32-bit ABI is still kinda of stinky).
I tried substituting a 'new uint8[xx}' call to replace a malloc with a try
catch block for bad_alloc. I then disassembled the code. One instruction
(to test the return value of the malloc) turned into:
How comes one version has multiple calls to new and the other one call
to malloc?
What was the original source?
uint8 cmd = iocb->get_op_var2();
buf = (uint8 *)malloc(bufsize);
if (buf == NULL) {
iocb->set_rd(IOT_WITH_EXCEPTIONS, RD1_OCS_MPU_PARITY);
return false;
}
switch (cmd) {
vs.
uint8 cmd = iocb->get_op_var2();
try {
buf = new uint8[bufsize];
} catch (std::exception e) {
iocb->set_rd(IOT_WITH_EXCEPTIONS, RD1_OCS_MPU_PARITY);
return false;
}
switch (cmd) {
There is only one call to operator new (at 732a), the source code
is intermixed with the assembler by the 'objdump' utility and it replicated the source
line in multiple places.
scott
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