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An Overview Of C++26: The Library – Math

September 9, 2024

The most interesting feature of the new C++26 standard library is its improved math support. std::submdspan std::submdspan…

An Overview of C++26: The Library

September 2, 2024

In my last post, I overviewed C++26's core language. Today, I continue with the library. To make…

An Overview of C++26: Core Language

August 26, 2024

C++26 has a lot to offer. Let me directly jump in and give you an overview. This image gives…

C++26: The Next C++ Standard

August 19, 2024

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C++26 will be the next C++ standard after C++23. This new standard significantly improves C++ and is…

My ALS Journey (13/n): Next Steps

August 13, 2024

Ice Bucket Challenge The Ice Bucket Challenge, sometimes called the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge,…

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August 12, 2024

C++23: This and That

August 12, 2024

I have already written 10 posts about C++23. Today, I want to discuss the features I forgot in the first…

Feature Testing Macros

August 5, 2024

The feature testing macros is a relatively unknown feature in C + + 20. They give you the definitive…

My ALS Journey (12/n): My Legacy

July 25, 2024

Today, I want to give you a rough idea, how I plan my next year's as a teacher, mentor , and speaker. >>…

Cooperative Interruption of a Thread in C++20: Callbacks

July 15, 2024

I introduced in my last post "Cooperative Interruption of a Thread in C++20" callbacks. Today, I dive…

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Cooperative Interruption of a Thread in C++20

July 1, 2024

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A typical question in my C++ seminars is: Can a thread be killed? Before C++20, my answer is no. With…

My ALS Journey: 11/n

June 29, 2024

This update is a special one. I want to explain how I can still provide classes, mentoring, and presentations. >>…

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Data-Parallel Types: simd_maskJuly 14, 2025 - 9:16 am
Thanks to simd_mask, conditional execution of operations on data-parallel types is possible. Unfortunately, in my last article, Data-Parallel Types – A First Example, I forgot to introduce one of the new library functions. I will make up for that in this article. Where Expression The new keyword where creates a so-called where expression. This allows […]
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 […]