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noexcept Specification

Low Priority17 min readUpdated June 6, 2026

The noexcept specifier, added in C++11, is a promise to the compiler and readers of the code: this function will not throw any exceptions. That promise enables performance optimizations in the standard library (especially in std::vector) and makes failure modes easier to reason about. When the promise is broken at runtime, the program does not recover. It calls std::terminate and dies.

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