Difference between Copy constructor vs Move constructor
Copy Constructors | Move Constructors |
Copy constructors takes lvalue reference as an argument. | Move constructors takes rvalue reference as argument. |
Copy constructors create a new object from passed object by copying each and every item into a new memory location. | Move constructors create a new object by using as much memory from passed object. |
Since, copy constructors use a lot of new memory allocation(for new object). Hence, copy constructors gives bad performance compared to move constructors | Since, move constructors use most of memory blocks from passed object. Hence, move constructors gave better performance compared to copy constructors. |
Since, copy constructors doesn’t make any change to passed object. Hence, passed object can be used after copy operations also. | Since, move constructors utilizes memory blocks from passed object. Hence, passed object can’t be used after move operations. |
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