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Automatically Resuming a Job with Coroutines on a Separate Thread

March 9, 2021

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In my last post "Starting Jobs with Coroutines", I applied co_await to start a job. In this post, I improve…

Starting Jobs with Coroutines

March 7, 2021

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C++20 has three new keywords to make a coroutine out of a function: co_return, co_yield, and co_await.…

A Generic Data Stream with Coroutines in C++20

March 7, 2021

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In my last post in this mini-series on coroutines from the practical perspective, I presented the workflow…

An Infinite Data Stream with Coroutines in C++20

March 6, 2021

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In this post, I analyze the new keyword co_yield. Thanks to co_yield, you can create an infinite data…

Executing a Future in a Separate Thread with Coroutines

March 6, 2021

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This post concludes my posts about co_return in C++20. I started with an eager future, and continued…

Lazy Futures with Coroutines

March 4, 2021

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Based on the coroutines-based implementation of a simple future in my last post "Implementing Simple…

Implementing Simple Futures with Coroutines

February 22, 2021

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Instead of return, a coroutine uses co_return returning its result. In this post, I want to implement…

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Synchronized Output Streams with C++20

February 18, 2021

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What happens when you write without synchronization to std::cout? You get a mess. With C++20, this should…

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The Five (Seven) Winners of my C++20 book are:

February 16, 2021

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Last week, I launched a quiz. The price was it to win one of the five vouchers for my book "C++20". The…

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An Improved Thread with C++20

February 12, 2021

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std::jthread stands for joining thread. In addition to std::thread (C++11), std::jthread automatically…

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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 […]