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Exceptions are one of the error-handling mechanisms available in C++. They are the only viable mechanism for reporting errors in constructors or operators.

Exceptions do not introduce an overhead for the happy path; however, exceptions do increase the binary's size, and because handling a thrown exception is relatively slow, they are only suitable for rare occurrences.

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