Archive for category: C++20

atomic<shared_ptr<>> by Oliver Schädlich

May 19, 2025

This blog article is an experiment. A few days ago, I received the following email (translated from…

Feature Testing Macros

August 5, 2024

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

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…

Chrono: Input

June 24, 2024

You can also apply the format specifier for formatted input. This post is the eleventh in my…

Chrono I/O: Unformatted and Formatted

June 17, 2024

Chrono I/O consists of reading and writing chrono types. The various chrono types support unformatted…

Chrono I/O

May 20, 2024

Chrono I/O consists of reading and writing chrono types. The various chrono types support unformatted…

Time Zones: Online Classes

May 13, 2024

Today, I will continue to present the functionality of the time zones of the C++20 chrono extension. This…

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Time Zones: Details

May 6, 2024

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Today, I present the time-zones functionality of the C++20 extension. This post is the seventh…

C++20: Query Calendar Dates and Ordinal Dates

April 22, 2024

The extended chrono library makes it relatively easy to ask for the time duration between calendar dates. This…

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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 […]