[Development] RFC: more liberal 'auto' rules?
Knoll Lars
Lars.Knoll at theqtcompany.com
Mon Dec 7 14:41:00 CET 2015
On 07/12/15 15:44, "Development on behalf of Marc Mutz" <development-bounces at qt-project.org on behalf of marc.mutz at kdab.com> wrote:
>On Monday 07 December 2015 13:48:58 Ziller Eike wrote:
>> I do not think that more usage of ‘auto’ will make any code (or
>> refactorings of it) ‘safer’. IMO this is only about convenience and
>> readability.
>
> std::map<std::string, std::string> stdMap = ...;
>
> for (const std::pair<std::string, std::string> &e : stdMap)
> doSomething(e.first, e.second);
>
> for (const auto &e : stdMap)
> doSomething(e.first, e.second);
>
>The second loop is at least two orders of magnitude faster (doSomething() is
>an out-of-line no-op).
I think the summary here is that auto gives you one guarantee: It won’t do an implicit conversion for the initial assignment.
Cheers,
Lars
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