On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[email protected]>wrote: [snip]
> Yes, though I see no reason why this should *not* be true for exception > handlers when the Liskov implementation technique is used. Indeed, the > Liskov-style implementation should generally be faster, because (a) it is > equally fast in the exceptional return case, but (b) the exceptional return > case is rarely invoked, and (c) the exceptional return case doesn't get in > the way of normal return at the low-level data structure, and (d) being > designed into the language, a proper exception implementation doesn't > require the thread-local storage workarounds that are required for *errno* > . > [snip] By "the Liskov implementation technique," do you mean CLU-style exceptions that propagate only to the immediate caller, as in [ http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~gibson/Teaching/CSC7322/ReadingMaterial/LiskovSnyder79.pdf ]?
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