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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: C++ exceptions
From:       Jonas Widarsson <jonas () widarsson ! com>
Date:       2005-12-04 20:40:46
Message-ID: 200512042140.46562.jonas () widarsson ! com
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On Sunday 04 December 2005 21:15, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> >I've learned that there is some kind of decision made for KDE to not use
> >exceptions.
>
> No.
>
> KDE libraries don't use exceptions unnecessarily. KDE programs are fully
> free to use them if they want.

Ok, Good. Thanks.

> >I read about exceptions and like to use them in my KDE app to, but first
> > I'd like to hear the primary reasons why KDE didn't like exceptions.
>
> 1) increase in code size
> 2) with some compilers, decrease in performance
>
> Recently, on the thread about event loop integration, I posted a few
> numbers. The size of QtCore's (Qt4) exception tables was larger than the
> full of libglib.

Does the size increase in relation to the amount of exceptions used?
(I mean roughly. Of course every little line of more code increases size.)

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