How to Construct C++ Objects Without Making Copies--Miguel Raggi

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 23, 2018 02:05 PM | Tags: performance

Avoiding copies.

How to Construct C++ Objects Without Making Copies

by Miguel Raggi

From the article:

C++ references are a powerful but tricky tool: used correctly, they can improve performance with little impact on the clarity of code. But used badly, they can hide performance issues, or even send a peaceful program into the realm of undefined behaviour.

In this post, we will explore how to use the various references of C++ to minimize copies when constructing an object that holds a value, and how in some cases we can even reach zero copies.

This article assumes that you’re familiar with move semantics, lvalue, rvalue and forwarding references. If you’d like to be refreshed on the subject, you can take a look at lvalues, rvalues and their references.

Customisation points to support interfaces -- Krzysztof Ostrowski

By fj | Jul 21, 2018 01:25 AM | Tags: None

Testable interfaces with polymorphic backends.

Customisation points to support interfaces

by Krzysztof Ostrowski

From the article:

Definition of an interface is not a trivial task. The resulting abstraction that embeds the defined interface actions does not have to be a set of virtual member functions wrapped into a class from which implementations exposed to the user derive. General guideline promoted in this article is to expose non-virtual interfaces to the user while providing a customisation point in the form of a minimal set of actions that can be combined with each other.

In-Place Construction for std::any, std::variant and std::optional--Bartlomiej Filipek

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 18, 2018 12:12 AM | Tags: intermediate

Efficient construction.

In-Place Construction for std::any, std::variant and std::optional

by Bartlomiej Filipek

From the article:

When you read articles or reference pages for std::any, std::optional or std::variant you might notice a few helper types called in_place_* available in constructors.

Why do we need such syntax? Is this more efficient than “standard” construction?

The Incredible Const Reference That Isn’t Const--Jonathan Boccara

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 18, 2018 12:07 AM | Tags: advanced

To be const or not?

The Incredible Const Reference That Isn’t Const

by Jonathan Boccara

From the article:

While working on the NamedType library I came across a situation that left me stunned in bewilderment: a const reference that allows modification of the object it refers to. Without a const_cast. Without a mutable. Without anything up the sleeve.

How can this be? And how to enforce the const in that const reference?

Full C++17 Filesystem Library Guide -- Nico Josuttis

By Nico Josuttis | Jul 16, 2018 12:59 PM | Tags: c++17

The latest update of "C++17 - The Complete Guide" now contains a detailed description of the whole new C++17 filesystem library.

Example Code

by Nico Josuttis

About the extension:

50 pages about all elements, all differences between POSIX/Linux and Windows, many examples, many tricks, traps, and hints as well as what changed with the library when it became part of C++17.

All examples were tested both with Visual C++ and g++.

Beyond the Type System -- Lucian Radu Teodorescu

By Lucian Radu Teodorescu | Jul 9, 2018 01:31 PM | Tags: None

Ever wondered how the compiler generates code for your types?

Beyond the Type System

by Lucian Radu Teodorescu

From the article:

Often when we consider a type system we think about a complex formalism to denote the semantics of a language. Languages typically add features by increasing the complexity of the type system.

But there is also another perspective on the type system: how does the generated code look like? what is the ABI for the code that uses different features of the type system? We’ll try to explore this perspective in this blog post.

Everything about unity builds -- Viktor Kirilov

By onqtam | Jul 9, 2018 01:28 PM | Tags: None

A unity build can cut down build times dramatically and is HIGHLY underrated and easily dismissed by many senior software engineers.

Everything about unity builds

by Viktor Kirilov

From the article:

In this post we will go over what it is, all its pros and cons, and why a “dirty hack” might be worth it if it speeds up your builds by at least a factor of 2 or perhaps even in the double-digits.

CppCon 2018 Call for Poster Submissions--Bob Steagall

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 9, 2018 01:23 PM | Tags: community

It's getting closer.

CppCon 2018 Call for Poster Submissions

by Bob Steagall

From the article:

Are you doing something really cool with C++? We want you to share it with the C++ community by creating a poster and presenting it at CppCon 2018.

Functions in std--Andrzej Krzemieński

By Marco Arena | Jul 9, 2018 06:52 AM | Tags: advanced

The Standard reserves the right to change the signatures and overloads of the existing Standard Library functions in what is considered a backward compatible way:

Functions in std

by Andrzej Krzemieński

From the article:

Names of functions from the Standard Library used as pointers/references to functions can cause breakage in your code...

Parallel STL And Filesystem: Files Word Count Example--Bartlomiej Filipek

By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 2, 2018 12:39 PM | Tags: performance c++17

Now with some more numbers.

Parallel STL And Filesystem: Files Word Count Example

by Bartlomiej Filipek

From the article:

Last week you might have read about a few examples of parallel algorithms. Today I have one more application that combines the ideas from the previous post.

We’ll use parallel algorithms and the standard filesystem to count words in all text files in a given directory...