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oconnor663 on Sept 21, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Taming Go’s memory usage, or how we avoided rewrit...

I think before the introduction of move semantics in C++11, there were a lot of cases where you needed new and delete to get basic things working. (Moving an fstream around is a relevant example.) So the modern rule of "don't use new and delete in application code" really wasn't practical before that.

jcelerier on Sept 21, 2021 | [–]

No, pretty much everything could be done with swap (like moving an fstream as you say). Sure, it's a bit more cumbersome, but it was still RAII.

nyanpasu64 on Sept 21, 2021 | [–]

I suppose RAII is an old concept, but move semantics allowing RAII to transfer ownership and avoid manual new/free of non-copied resources was uncommon until C++11.

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