Re: [Boost-users] Cost of throwing exceptions - are they just non-local goto?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-24 01:05:09

Tan Kwee Heong wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wish to reconcile the information provided from Scott Meyer's More
> Effective C++ Item 15, with that
> of Peter Dimov. Could someone post some URLs/referencess of Peter's
> comments, for
> my benefit?

Unfortunately, I cannot find that post in archives.

Note that the comment does not imply that "throw" is translated into "goto"
statements, neither on language lever, nor at assembler lever. It's an
analogy, not a 100% equivalence.

- Volodya