[bind10-dev] whether/when to use exceptions

JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 jinmei at isc.org
Wed Oct 14 19:06:19 UTC 2009


At Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:55:33 -0400,
christos at zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

> Well, my personal experience with pretty good c++ programmers
> writing c++ with exceptions has not been good, that's why where
> I work they are not allowed to do this anymore. YMMV. Why don't you
> write the whole thing in java if you want exceptions? Well written
> java can be as fast as c++ after the warmup period.

In fact, we'll use python where we don't need excellent level
performance.

Based on the discussions I've seen so far, I guess we'll first give
exceptions a try in our C++ code, keeping in our mind the warnings,
and revisit the pros and cons in the actual product at some early
stage.

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JINMEI, Tatuya



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