exit(3)ing is faster

[imlex]

Say you're at the end of your program. All the work is done and you want to quit. But say that you’ve got some big objects laying around. If all you have to do in your destructors is de-allocate memory, I’ve re-discovered that you can avoid having your objects destroyed by calling exit(3) rather than returning from main. This really helped in my

Comments

[quikchange]

Precisely. By omitting unnecessary cleanup, it can finish faster.

duh!

[canoe_drew]

Just don't try it in win98!

Re: duh!

[kinthelt]

No kidding!