Tag Archive for: Performance

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C++ Parallel STL Benchmark

August 14, 2023

Today, I'm happy to present a guest post from Victor J. Duvanenko about my favorite C++17 feature: the…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Improved Performance with Iostreams

July 4, 2019

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As easy as my title and the rules of the C++ core guidelines sound, getting more performance out of the…

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C++ Core Guidelines: Avoid Bounds Errors

June 5, 2019

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When you access an element outside a container of the STL, the result is not so promising. Your effect…

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More special Friends with std::map and std::unordered_map

May 29, 2019

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Modern C++ has eight associative containers, but your special friends should be std::map and std::unordered_map.…

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C++ Core Guidelines: std::array and std::vector are your Friends

May 24, 2019

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In 99 % of your use cases for a sequential container, you are outstanding with a std::array or a std::vector.…

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C++ Core Guidelines: The Remaining Rules about Performance

April 13, 2018

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Today, I will write about the remaining ten rules of performance. Ten rules seem to be a lot, but only…

C++ Core Guidelines: More Rules about Performance

April 4, 2018

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In this post, I continue my journey through the rules to performance in the C++ Core Guidelines. …

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C++ Core Guidelines: Rules about Performance

March 23, 2018

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Before I write about the rules of performance, I will do a straightforward job. Accessing the elements…

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My Conclusion: Summation of a Vector in three Variants

September 11, 2016

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After I've calculated in three different ways the sum of a std::vector I want to draw my conclusions. The…

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Multithreaded: Summation with Minimal Synchronization

September 7, 2016

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Until now, I've used two strategies to summate a std::vector. First, I did the whole math in one thread…

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A Lock-Free Stack: Atomic Smart PointerFebruary 17, 2025 - 11:47 am
The easiest way to solve this memory leak issue from the last post is to use a std::shared_ptr. Atomic Smart Pointer There are two ways to apply atomic operations on a std::shared_ptr: In C++11, you can use the free atomic functions on std::shared_ptr. With C++20, you can use atomic smart pointers. C++11 Using atomic operations […]
A Lock-Free Stack: A Complete ImplementationFebruary 10, 2025 - 3:01 pm
My last lock-free stack implementation was incomplete. It only supported push operations. Let’s change this. The following paragraph about sequential consistency is optional. You can easily ignore it. Sequential Consistency In my examples, I use the default memory ordering: sequential consistency. The reason is simple. Sequential consistency provides the strongest guarantees of all memory ordering […]
My Next Mentoring Program: “Generic Programming (Templates) with C++” startsFebruary 4, 2025 - 4:51 pm
My next mentoring program, “Embedded Programming with Modern C++,” starts on January 31st. Registration is open. Here are more details. Embedded Programming with Modern C++ The mentoring program consists of 16 stations. You have to invest at least 3 hours per week for each one. This means the program takes four months, and you can […]
A Lock-Free Stack: A Simplified ImplementationFebruary 3, 2025 - 10:37 am
Today, I continue my mini story about lock-free data structures. General Considerations From the outside, the caller’s responsibility (application) is to protect the data. From inside, the data structure is responsible for protecting itself. A data structure that protects itself so a data race cannot appear is called thread-safe. First, what general considerations must you […]
Deferred Reclamation in C++26: Read-Copy Update and Hazard PointersJanuary 27, 2025 - 12:23 pm
Before I dive into lock-free programming, there’s a little bit of theory necessary. A common problem in concurrency is the so-called ABA problem. That means you read a variable twice, which returns the same value each time, A. Therefore, you conclude that nothing changed in between. But you forgot the B. Let me first use […]
std::format ExtensionJanuary 20, 2025 - 11:55 am
Displaying the address of an arbitrary pointer in C++ 20 fails but succeeds with C++26. C++20 Only void, const void, and std::nullptr_t pointer types are valid. If you want to display the address of an arbitrary pointer, you must cast it to (const) void*. // formatPointer20.cpp #include <format> #include <iostream> #include <string> int main() { […]