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Modules

April 29, 2019

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Modules are one of the five prominent features of C++20. Modules will overcome the restrictions of header…

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C++ Core Guidelines: The Remaining Rules about Source Files

April 25, 2019

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Today, I complet the rules of the C++ core guidelines to source files. They are about header files and…

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The new pdf bundle is available: C++ Core Guidlines – Templates and Generic Programming

April 18, 2019

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I have prepared the pdf bundle. To get it is quite simple. If you subscribe to the newsletter, you…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Source Files

April 16, 2019

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The organization of source files is a topic quite seldom addressed in C++. With C++20, we will get modules,…

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C++ Insights – Lambdas

April 11, 2019

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Honestly, many programmers in my classes have issues with the syntactic sugar of lambdas. Desugaring…

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C++ Insights – Variadic Templates

April 4, 2019

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Variadic templates are a C++ feature that looks quite magic the first time you see them. Thanks to C++…

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C++ Insights – Template Instantiation

March 28, 2019

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Today's post from Andreas is about template instantiation. C++ Insights helps you a lot to get a deeper…

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C++ Insights – Type Deduction

March 20, 2019

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Andreas Fertigs story with C++ Insights goes on. This weeks post is about type deduction with auto and…

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Which pdf bundle should I provide? Make your choice!

March 17, 2019

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Now, it's time to choose the next pdf bundle? You will get all posts, all source files, and a cmake file…

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C++ Insights – Implicit Conversions

March 13, 2019

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I'm totally happy to announce that this post starts a series of posts to C++ Insights. C++ Insights is…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Mixing C with C++

March 8, 2019

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Due to the same history of C and C++, both languages are closely related. Because neither of them is…

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Types-, Non-Types, and Templates as Template Parameters

February 27, 2019

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I assume you saw the additional keywords typename or template used before a name in a template. Me too.…

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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 […]