[Development] What kind of airplane we want to build?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

22.01.2016, 12:50, "Marc Mutz" <marc.mutz at kdab.com>:
> On Friday 22 January 2016 10:38:28 Welbourne Edward wrote:
>>  > AFAIK C++11/14 compilers have zero-cost exception, so, is there any
>>  > reason why not start using them in Qt 6.0 ?
>>
>>  Any "zero cost" claim is with respect to some assumed base-point. ISTR
>>  exceptions require RTTI (run-time type info, as used by dynamic_cast<>),
>>  so I guess this "zero cost" claim takes for granted the cost of RTTI -
>>  which is surely non-trivial. Qt has its own meta-info so (IIUC) can be
>>  built without RTTI, so building with would be a non-trivial cost as a
>>  pre-requisite of exceptions.
>
> It's not just RTTI. It's also exception tables and cleanup code.

And this cleanup code more often than not interferes with compiler optimizations, so -fno-exceptions tends to work faster.

>
> So no, exceptions don't have zero cost. But they may have zero _runtime_ cost
> when not thrown, as MS claims for the Windows ABI on AMD64.
>
> A fair comparision would, however, not compare -fexceptions vs -fno-
> exceptions, but take a subsystem, and replace all manual error handling with
> exceptions, then compare performance and code size between the subsystem using
> exceptions and the version with manual error handling (as complete as
> possible, of course) and -fno-exceptions.
>
> I'm not sure about what outcome to expect, and I don't remember any numbers
> posted by anyone else, either.
>
> Thanks,
> Marc
>
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Regards,
Konstantin