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From: ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c++
Subject: Re: It's a lot worse than it sounds (was Re: The problem with temp...)
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In article <15848@goofy.Apple.COM> mitch@Apple.COM (Mitch Adler) writes:

> But this uses the copy constructor, and makes an extra copy (forcing
> us to define MyObject pointer types if we want effeciency).

> Ok, I can deal with that.

So can some compilers -- the call to the copy constructor can
often be optimized away.  This is especially likely if the
function in question is inline.
-- 
				--Andrew Koenig
				  ark@europa.att.com