[cxx-abi-dev] comparing type_infos (was Re: Patch for throw/catchproblems)

[Mark Mitchell]

--On Tuesday, August 14, 2001 10:36:31 PM -0500 Eli Boling 
<eboling at borland.com> wrote:

> I really prefer that not to focus on a solution that relies on the
> performance of the dynamic loader to patch up pitfalls in the design of
> the implementation. That works fine for the unix community, but not so
> hot for the Windows community.  If I work on an ABI, I don't want to have
> to redo big pieces of it on another platform because the loader isn't
> tuned to deal with issues related to particular language implementations.

The tradeoff is that if you don't focus on the dynamic loader, then
you have to focus on each programming language separately.  The ideal,
of course, is to do both -- make each ABI as efficient as possible
*and* make the loader as efficient as possible.

So, if we can do something to make the C++ ABI more efficient, we
should definitely do that, by all means.

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