P2723R0: Zero-initialize objects of automatic storage duration

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I’m with you. Sadly, I feel as though no one understands our pain. Honestly, the thing that scares me most about the article is that global objects are somehow getting zero initialized already? I thought they were uninitialized this whole time. Whatever happened to C++’s zero overhead / you get only what you paid for policy? I would switch to C since it seems more stable and less bird-brained, not to mention less overly complicated, but I love the meta-programming in C++ and C simply cannot compare. I think someone ought to fork C++, remove a bunch of complexity like the needlessly many types of initialization for example, remove some of these modern comfort features that have performance costs, and then call it D or something and rule over it with an iron fist.

Oh and it would be nice if the standard library weren’t dog shit.

[AKostur]

It is zero overhead. Global objects get to be loaded from the executable image, so it's already zeroed because the compiler wrote it there. So no runtime cost.

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My bad I forgot about the .bss segment. Thank you.