Re: Ruling out arbitrary cost copy construction?

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 10/6/10 13:59 CDT, Michel Fortin wrote:
Could algorithms use "move" when possible (when "front" returns a ref)
and do a copy when move isn't available? That'd be a good compromise I
think.
T tmp = moveOrCopy(r1.front);
r1.front = moveOrCopy(r2.front);
r2.front = moveOrCopy(tmp);

Then problem is, people sort ranges of their own objects and are amazed 
at the unbearable performance.

Andrei