[MECpp]Item-16 Remember 80-20 Rule
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The 80-20 rule states that 80 percent of a program’s resources are used by about 20 percent of the code.
[MECpp]Item-15 Understand the Costs of Exception Handling
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Exception handling has costs, and we pay at least some of them even if we never use the keywords try, throw, or catch.
[MECpp]Item-14 Use Exception Specifications Judiciously
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Exception specifications provide a documentation aid and an enforcement mechanism for constraints on exception usage, but they are only partly checked by compilers and they are easy to violate inadvertently.
[MECpp]Item-13 Catch Exceptions by Reference
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If catching by reference, we sidestep the questions about object deletion, avoid slicing exception objects, retain the ability to catch standard exceptions, and limit the number of times exception objects being copied.
[MECpp]Item-12 Understand How Throwing an Exception Differs From Passing a Parameter or Calling a Virtual Function
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There are three primary ways in which passing an object to a function or using that object to invoke a virtual function differs from throwing the object as an exception.
