Auto is a keyword introduced in C++ 11 out of the necessity to capture lambdas.
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Hello, dear reader! I think you have many assumptions about the performance and usage of data structures in C++. This blog post is me, destroying your world.
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C++ 11 and C++ 14 came with a lot of new features. People tend to focus on lambdas and rvalue references, but today I’d like to talk about constexpr.
Tags: c++, constexpr, Uncategorized
The topic of commenting source code has been discussed over and over.
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Many Boost.Filesystem functions and methods (and the pattern also exists in Boost.Asio) will throw a boost::system::error_code in case of error, and sometimes it is not as obvious as you might expect, case in point:
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Precision is costly - As you saw in our previous post getting a timestamp as precise as possible is expensive in precious cycles. We do it only when we really need it because we really care about writing the world fastest database.
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I'm used to read technical inaccuracies when it comes to system programming, and writings about the Nagle algorithm are very high in the list.
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