[J3] [EXTERNAL] Re: Exception handling - Golang proposal

[Ondřej Čertík]

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019, at 9:54 PM, Van Snyder via J3 wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-07-24 at 21:34 -0600, Ondřej Čertík via J3 wrote:
> > I agree with you Van that I would like to see some actual code that
> > slows down. I was hoping Stockfish could do it, but it's an example of
> > a C++ code that does not slow down. If somebody finds some other code
> > that shows the actual slowdown, I would be interested.
> 
> C++ code that slows down when compiled with exception handling enabled
> is probably irrelevant.  Things that happen in C++ do not inevitably
> happen in other languages.  Given that Ada processors do not have these
> problems, there are probably things to learn about what not to do by
> studying C++ exception handling.

That's exactly right: I am hoping we can learn what not to do by studying C++ exceptions handling.

Ondrej