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Why you should use Boost.MultiIndex (Part II)--David Gross

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 29, 2016 01:57 PM | Tags: intermediate community

The series continue:

Why you should use Boost.MultiIndex (Part II)

by David Gross

From the article:

A few weeks ago, I posted the first part of this article, where I explained the advantages of Boost.MultiIndex over the standard containers when you need to have multiple views on a set of data.

In this second part, I would like to talk about the benefits you can get from using Boost.MultiIndex as a single-index hash table, as a replacement of std::unordered_map.

One interesting and powerful aspect of Boost.MultiIndex is that it allows you to add an index of type T, where T is different from the stored type. And it is more frequent and useful that you could think.

Demystifying constexpr-Edouard from quasardb

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 23, 2016 12:36 PM | Tags: intermediate c++14

Compilation time computations are good!

Demystifying constexpr

by Edouard from quasardb

From the article:

C++ 11 and C++ 14 came with a lot of new features. People tend to focus on lambdas and rvalue references, but today I’d like to talk about constexpr.

In this post we'll only talk about constant expressions as in C++ 14. There is absolutely no point to restrict yourself to C++ 11 in 2016. C++ 14 is really C++ 11 Service Pack 1, so if you missed the update, go straight to C++ 14!

Getting your head around auto’s type-deduction rules--Glennan Carnie

By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 4, 2016 12:53 PM | Tags: intermediate experimental

Are the rules clear to you?

Getting your head around auto’s type-deduction rules

by Glennan Carnie

From the article:

Automatic type-deduction is perhaps one of the more divisive features of Modern C++.  At its core it’s a straightforward concept:  let the compiler deduce the type of an object from its initialiser.   Used in the right way this can improve the readability and maintainability of your code.

However, because auto is based on template type-deduction rules there are some subtleties that can catch the unwary programmer.

In this article we’ll have a look at auto in the context of the template type-deduction rules to see where all these subtleties come from...