C++: returning by reference and copy constructors

Question

References in C++ are baffling me. :)

The basic idea is that I\'m trying to return an object from a function. I\'d like to do it without returning a pointer (because

Answer 1

read about RVO and NRVO (in a word these two stands for Return Value Optimization and Named RVO, and are optimization techniques used by the compiler to do what you're trying to achieve)

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