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Generate lambdas for clarity and performance
January 7, 2017•1,197 words
Higher order functions , functions that operate on other functions or returns functions, are familiar to those who have had some experience with fu...
Serializing structs with C++17 structured bindings
December 29, 2016•3,519 words
Serializing data in C++ is a surprisingly difficult problem. There are many libraries for it with varying degrees of finesse, power and ease of use...
strings as types with c++17 constexpr lambdas
August 25, 2016•633 words
Recently I stumbled upon a question by @arne_mertz of Simplify C++ fame (if you don't read that blog, start now!) about using string literals as ty...
Succinct and helpful C++ template compilation errors
May 18, 2016•1,274 words
We've all experienced them, the long and unhelpful compilation errors from templates, usually referring to some internal header you didn't even kno...
A flexible lexicographical comparator for C++ structs
January 1, 2016•1,314 words
We've all hand crafted comparison operators for structs with many members, and we've all cursed the tedium. It's all right for equality comparison,...
Cache optimizing a priority queue
August 3, 2015•1,605 words
I must begin with saying that if you found this because you have a performance problem, you should almost certainly look elsewhere. It is highly un...
Performance observations on a C++ vector of lambdas
June 5, 2015•1,339 words
Edit 2015-Jun-7: The source code is available on GitHub When writing unit tests, you typically don't care much about execution speed, but compile t...
Compile time quicksort in idiomatic modern C++
January 18, 2015•1,636 words
A contender for the most useless program ever written just got a much needed overhaul. In 2011 I wrote about compile time quick sort as a challenge...