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C++ Core Guidelines: The Remaining Rules about Performance
Today, I will write about the remaining ten rules of performance. Ten rules seem to be a lot, but only two have content.
C++ Core Guidelines: More Rules about Performance
In this post, I continue my journey through the rules to performance in the C++ Core Guidelines. I will mainly write about design for optimization.
The Truth about “Raw Pointers Removed from C++”
Five bloggers have teamed up worldwide to deliver an April Fool’s joke to readers about eliminating pointers. The response to the five articles was huge and ranged from “it took so long” to “that can not be true”. Here again, the truths, half-truths, and untruths: No New New: Raw Pointers Removed from C++. You can […]
No New New: Raw Pointers Removed from C++
Two weeks ago, the ISO C++ standard meeting took place in Jacksonville. Today I want to make a short detour and write about the revolutionary decision that was made in the Jacksonville meeting. Additionally, I refer to the post C++ Will no Longer Have Pointers by Fluent C++. The standard committee decided that pointers will be […]
C++ Core Guidelines: Rules about Performance
Before I write about the rules of performance, I will do a straightforward job. Accessing the elements of a container one by one.
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C++ Core Guidelines: Rules about Statements and Arithmetic
Today, I will write about the remaining rules to statements and the arithmetic rules. If you don’t follow the arithmetic rules, undefined behaviour may kick in.
C++ Core Guidelines: More about Control Structures
My last German post C++ Core Guidelines: To Switch or not to Switch, that is the Question got a lot of attention. To use a hash table instead of a switch statement seems to be a highly emotional topic. So I change my original plan. Today, I will present different kinds of control structures. I will start […]
C++ Core Guidelines: To Switch or not to Switch, that is the Question
First, I have to apologize. Today, I wanted to continue my journey through the C++ Core Guidelines with arithmetic expressions. In my seminar this week, we had a long discussion about switch statements in C/C++ and how they become unmaintainable. Honestly, I’m not a fan of the switch statements, and I have to say: there is life […]