CppCon 2017: Jody Hagins “Throwing Exceptions for Fun and Profit”

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Lightning Talk
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[aliancemd]

I think this is a bit misguided.
The compiler throws over himself because of "char *", and that "for"(can't tell the compiler that the address won't change) and "to_upper"(can't tell the compiler that the data won't change) were intentionally added so you can't pass "const char *const" and allow the compiler to optimize it away(when you don't have exceptions).

It's like I would give you these 2 obviously misleading examples and tell you that it is a good example of why exceptions are bad: