Entries by Rainer Grimm

Template Instantiation

Template instantiation is creating a concrete function or a concrete class out of a function or class template. Creating template instantiation can be implicit (compiler-generated) or explicit (user-provided).

Performance of the Parallel STL Algorithms

In my last post, “Parallel Algorithms of the STL with the GCC Compiler“, I presented the necessary theory about the C++17 algorithm. Today, I made a performance test using the Microsoft and GCC compiler to answer the simple question: Does the execution policy pay off?