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passing functions to functions--Vittorio Romeo

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 9, 2017 01:32 PM | Tags: performance intermediate

How do you pass functions?

passing functions to functions

by Vittorio Romeo

From the article:

Since the advent of C++11 writing more functional code has become easier. Functional programming patterns and ideas are powerful additions to the C++ developer's huge toolbox. (I recently attended a great introductory talk on them by Phil Nash at the first London C++ Meetup - you can find an older recording here on YouTube.)

In this blog post I'll briefly cover some techniques that can be used to pass functions to other functions and show their impact on the generated assembly at the end...

Lazy generators: template deduction on the left-hand side -- Simon Brand

By TartanLlama | Jan 6, 2017 02:49 AM | Tags: None

How to do template deduction on the left-hand side of initialization using lazy generators.

Lazy generators: template deduction on the left-hand side

by Simon Brand

From the article:

If you are constructing or assigning to a variable from some function template call, the template magic usually occurs on the right-hand side of the expression. But what if we could deduce the type we want from the left-hand side of the construction?

The Salami Method -- Adi Shavit

By Adi | Jan 6, 2017 02:46 AM | Tags: None

C and C++ are probably the only viable languages for true cross-platform development.

The Salami Method

by Adi Shavit

From the article:

The Salami Method finely distinguishes between the different aspects and layers required for exposing platform-independent C++ on different “specific” platforms. At its extreme it strives to create a single, thin, transparent layer for each such aspect so that each layer is more easily built, tested, debugged, managed and maintained.

Applying a permutation to a vector, part 1--Raymond Chen

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 3, 2017 02:01 PM | Tags: intermediate efficiency

It seems a simple problem, yet...

Applying a permutation to a vector, part 1

by Raymond Chen

From the article:

Suppose you have a vector indices of N integers that is a permutation of the numbers 0 through N − 1. Suppose you also have a vector v of N objects. The mission is to apply the permutation to the vector. If we let v2 represent the contents of the vector at the end of the operation, the requirement is that v2[i] = v[indices[i]] for all i...

string_view odi et amo--Marco Arena

By Marco Arena | Jan 3, 2017 06:40 AM | Tags: intermediate c++17

string_view has recently joined the C++ standard and it can dramatically help your daily job. In this article, after introducing how it works, I show and discuss a few common pitfalls I have met in the last years:

string_view odi et amo

by Marco Arena

From the article:

string_view-like wrappers have been successfully used in C++ codebases for years, made possible by libraries like boost::string_ref. I think all of you know that string_view has joined the C++ standard library since C++17...

My take on variant--Jonathan Müller

By Adrien Hamelin | Dec 30, 2016 03:16 PM | Tags: experimental community

An interesting point of view and implementation of a variant in one article!

My take on variant

by Jonathan Müller

From the article:

C++17 is going to add std::variant. To quote the linked documentation, it is a “type-safe union”. A union is like a struct, but can only store one member at a time. This has many applications, but sadly it doesn’t mix well with non-trivial types, you have to call the destructor yourself etc. Furthermore, nothing prevents you from accessing a union member that isn’t active.

std::variant fixes that. It correctly calls the destructor when switching the active member, it prevents invalid access, etc. However, I’m not quite happy with it and I needed an implementation now. So I’ve decided to implement my own variant as part of my type_safe library.

It was a fun challenge and since my previous attempt was two years ago, I could improve it a lot. Let’s go through some of my design decisions.