Re: Does binding to const-reference outperform copy-initialization from returned value?
"Niels Dekker - no return address" <invalid@this.is.invalid> wrote in
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When using VC++ 2008 SP1, is there any possible performance difference
between binding a temporary object (rvalue) returned by a function to
a const-reference, and using the temporary object to copy-initialize
a local (const) variable? For example:
// Forward declarations:
class Foo;
Foo GetFoo(void);
const Foo& constReference = GetFoo();
const Foo constValue = GetFoo();
In principle, the compiler is allowed to call Foo's copy-constructor one
more time in the second case, compared to the first. However, it is
highly likely the compiler would optimize this extra call away in a
release build. I can't think of any situation where it would be unable
to, off the top of my head.
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