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Registration is Open for my Mentoring Program “Fundamentals for C++ Professionals”

March 16, 2022

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I'm happy to announce: The registration for my mentoring program is now open until the 17th of April. My…

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Policy

March 13, 2022

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Thanks to templates, there are new ways of software design. Policies and traits are two commonly used…

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Avoiding Temporaries with Expression Templates

March 8, 2022

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Expression templates are typically used in linear algebra and are "structures representing a computation…

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Help for the People in Ukraine

March 3, 2022

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Get my 3-books bundle Modern C++ Collection for half the price ($66 -> $33). All money…

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Mixins

March 2, 2022

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In my previous post "More about Dynamic and Static Polymorphism", I used the Curiously Recurring…

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The Launch of my Mentoring Program “Fundamentals for C++ Professionals”

March 1, 2022

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I have prepared my mentoring program and am ready to start on 22nd April. I'm happy to say…

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More about Dynamic and Static Polymorphism

February 25, 2022

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In my last post, "Dynamic and Static Polymorphism", I introduced dynamic polymorphism. Today, I continue…

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More About Me

February 23, 2022

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Do you want to participate in my mentoring program "Fundamentals for C++ Professionals"? Of course, you…

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Dynamic and Static Polymorphism

February 18, 2022

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Polymorphism is the property that different types support the same interface. In C++, we distinguish…

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constexpr if

February 7, 2022

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In today's post, I want to introduce an exciting C++17 feature: constexpr if. constexpr if enables it…

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constexpr and consteval Functions in C++20

February 4, 2022

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With C++20, constexpr became way more powerful. Additionally, we have consteval functions in C++20…

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More Information about my Mentoring Program “Fundamentals for C++ Professionals”

February 4, 2022

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One month ago, I presented "My Mentoring Program "Fundamentals for C++ Professionals". I'm overwhelmed…

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Data-Parallel Types – A First ExampleJune 25, 2025 - 4:01 pm
After providing a theoretical introduction to the new C++ 26 feature in my last article, “Data-Parallel Types (SIMD),” I would like to follow up today with a practical example. The following introductory example is from the experimental implementation of the SIMD library. This functionality has been fully adopted in the C++ 26 draft under the […]
Data-Parallel Types (SIMD)June 16, 2025 - 10:24 am
The data-parallel types (SIMD) library provides data-parallel types and operations on them. Today, I want to take a closer look at this. Before diving into the new library, I would like to take a moment to discuss SIMD. SIMD Vectorization refers to the SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) extensions of a modern processor’s instruction set. […]
Read-copy-update (RCU)June 2, 2025 - 9:54 am
Read-copy-update is strong in multithreading environments where a data structure is read almost exclusively but rarely written. First of all, what is RCU? The excellent Wikipedia page on Read-copy-update provides a good introduction: In computer science, read-copy-update (RCU) is a synchronization mechanism that avoids the use of lock primitives while multiple threads concurrently read and […]
atomic<shared_ptr<>> by Oliver SchädlichMay 19, 2025 - 9:11 am
This blog article is an experiment. A few days ago, I received the following email (translated from German) from Oliver Schädlich (oliver.schaedlich@gmail.com). If, as I hope, this article sparks a discussion, I will be happy to summarize it in my last article. Please send an email to: Rainer.Grimm@ModernesCpp.de. I just read your latest article on […]
Hazard Pointers in C++26May 5, 2025 - 11:12 am
Hazard pointers provide garbage collection in C++ and solve the ABA problem. First of all. What is a hazard pointer? Proposal P2530R3 gives a nice explanation: A hazard pointer is a single-writer multi-reader pointer that can be owned by at most one thread at any time. Only the owner of the hazard pointer can set […]
A Lock-Free Stack: A Hazard Pointer Implementation Explained IIApril 7, 2025 - 11:11 am
In my last post, I started to explain a hazard pointer implementation: A Lock-Free Stack: A Hazard Pointer Implementation Explained I. Today, I will continue to explain the implementation. The Retire List The retire list has the public member functions isInUse, addNode, and deleteUnusedNodes. Additionally, it has the inner class RetireNode, an atomic member of […]