[barrkel]

Binary working set sizes are often lower with exceptions than without, because exception handling code can be moved elsewhere by the compiler. Error-checking code, on the other hand, cannot be so easily detected, and hence moved.

I think the C++ implementation of exceptions has a lot to answer for though, in poisoning too many developers on the concept. It really is an awful implementation.

[pmjordan]

C++ seems full of missed opportunities. I fear a lot of them are due to the slavish backward compatibility to C.