Re: simplest way to trap error in lua?

[David Given <dg@...>]

Glenn Maynard wrote:
[...]
> longjmp will probably outperform throw, but that's rarely an
> optimization point.  I doubt setjmp will outperform try, which
> just allocates (in g++) a bit more stack space, and doesn't
> add any instructions to the non-exceptional code path.
[...]
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 glenn users 6186780 Jan 25 20:41 stepmania* (stripped)
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 glenn users 4653388 Jan 25 20:41 stepmania* (stripped, -fno-exceptions)

Which gcc is that? gcc 2.95 and gcc 4 use radically different exception
mechanisms (don't know about gcc 3). gcc 4 does call setjmp on try{}, but
instead using an exotic table-based mechanism for figuring out whether the
program counter was in a try block when the exception is thrown, which should
radically change (reduce?) the footprint. Also, use much less stack.

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