Hello,
For performance reasons, I would like to provide a way to skip construction/destruction of objects that are stack allocated. Typically, C-style arrays of std::complex create an initialization loops that is almost always unnecessary.
I am thinking of providing an attribute((uninitialized)) that can be applied to an object declaration:
{
std::complex foo[64][64] attribute((uninitialized));
// does not need to generate a zeroinitializer loop here
somefunction(foo);
// does not need to generate a destructor loop here (std::complex don’t have one anyway)
}
Formally speaking, we won’t call constructors/destructors on those objects anymore. We would provide “uninitialized” memory in the same meaning as malloc/free.
Do you see this as a good idea? Do we already have a better way of achieving this?
I’m worried about the fact that for non-POD types it is not safe to ignore that attribute, which probably means using an attribute is not a good fit…