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Design by contract

C++ Core Guidelines: A Short Detour to Contracts in C++20

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My original plan was it to write in this post about the next rules to error handling. But I changed my…
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The End of my Detour: Unified Futures

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After the last post to executors, I can finally write about the unified futures. I write in the post…
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A Short Detour: Executors

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A few weeks ago, one of the authors of the proposal to the futures in C++ Felix Petriconi wrote me an…
memory

No New New: Raw Pointers Removed from C++

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Two weeks ago, the ISO C++ standard meeting took place in Jacksonville.  Today I want to make a…
conceptsIntegralVariations

Placeholders – The Second

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The unification of templates, concepts, and placeholders goes on. This time, I will look closely at constrained…
ForkJoin

Task Blocks

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Task blocks use the well-known fork-join paradigm for the parallel execution of tasks. Who invented…
synchronized

Transactional Memory

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Transactional memory is based on the idea of a transaction from the database theory. Transactional memory…
optional

std::future Extensions

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Tasks in the form of promises and futures have in C++11 an ambivalent reputation. On the one hand, they…
timelineCpp17andCpp20

Multithreading with C++17 and C++20

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Forecasts about the future are difficult. In particular, when they are about C++20. Nevertheless, I will…
optional

Monads in C++

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Monads in C++? What a strange name for a post. But it's not so strange. With std::optional, C++17 gets…