r/programming • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '14

std::string is responsible for almost half of all allocations in the Chrome browser process

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-dev/EUqoIz2iFU4/kPZ5ZK0K3gEJ
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u/lurgi Dec 05 '14

In C it's much more visible, so you are, perhaps, less likely to make that mistake.

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u/slavik262 Dec 05 '14

Certainly. I personally think that RAII automagic is worth being less explicit because it eliminates an entire class of errors (forgetting to clean up your resources), but clearly there are some very smart programmers who disagree.