
C/C++
Object Swapping, Part 3: Swapping and Moving
By Andrew Koenig, March 28, 2012
I would like to continue this series by discussing the notion of moving, rather than copying, values.Related Reading
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At last, a clear explanation of std::move().
This has been a very useful and insightful series - thank you for putting it together. Could you possibly contrast this method with that of using a container of pointers to objects?
Thank you for the further explanations on this topic.