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		Rexxar on June 23, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Railway oriented programming C++ exception can be "zero cost" in the non exceptional path (for example http://llvm.org/docs/ExceptionHandling.html#itanium-abi-zero...)

_0w8t on June 23, 2016 [–]

Presence of exceptions still prevents some optimizations that the compiler can do otherwise like omitting frame pointer etc.

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