std::chrono::duration construction

[Bjorn Reese]

Does anybody know the rationale why the tick count of chrono::duration
is left uninitialized by default?

std::chrono::duration<int> d; // tick count is uninitialized

[Vicente J. Botet Escriba]

Hi, I guess is to follow the pattern don't pay for what you don't use, but Howard would explain it better.

If you want the representation to be default initialized to zero, you can just provide one that do that


std::chrono::duration<MyInt> d; // MyInt default constructor initialize the value to zero.

Vicente

[Howard Hinnant]

Vicente is correct. Because of the expected high use of durations, I did not want to impose the expense of always zero initializing them. However, just like scalars, they are easily zero-initialized:

std::chrono::duration<int> d; // tick count is uninitialized

std::chrono::duration<int> e{}; // tick count is zero-initialized

Howard