Forward Declarations to Reduce Compiletime Dependencies
As promised last week in my post about strange include techniques, I will go into reducing compile time dependencies. Reducing dependencies by shifting them from headers to source files can […]
C++
#include – Don’t get fancy
After having had to clean up some unusual #include techniques, I’ll put together some advice on how not to use #include – and how to use it.
Terseness: how little is too much?
Today, Matt Bentley writes for us about terse names in our Code. Matt was born in 1978 and never recovered from the ordeal. He has lived a long and interesting […]
Complexity Theory, Relativity and The Theory of Everything
This week’s guest post is by Matthew Butler, who shows us some insights about how the relationship between complexity and performance can be less than obvious in multiple ways. Matthew […]
Meeting C++ 2017 Trip Report
A few days ago, I attended the Meeting C++ conference in Berlin, the third year in a row. As usual, I had a lot of fun and interesting conversations with […]
Mutable
The mutable keyword seems to be one of the less known corners of C++. Yet it can be very useful, or even unavoidable if you want to write const-correct code […]
reinterpret_cast vs. constant expression
Dipping my toes into a new project, I got a bunch of ugly warnings about a ton of C-casts inside a macro definition. Trying to get away from them was […]
Modern C++ Features – Class Template Argument Deduction
With C++17, we get class template argument deduction. It is based on template argument deduction for function templates and allows us to get rid of the need for clumsy make_XXX […]
C++ Online Compilers
Online compilers can be useful tools to quickly compile a snippet of code without having to install a proper compiler on our computer. They can be especially useful to play […]
Final Classes
A few days ago, a colleague asked me if it was wise to make every class a final class. Here is a more sophisticated answer than I could give at […]