Three cool free extensions for VS 2019

Posted by Edouard on 19 Sep 2020

Although QuasarDB is mostly run on Linux, most of the development team works primarily on Windows using Visual Studio. It’s because VS has the most advanced native debugger, sitting on top of the Windows Debug API.

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Tags: cpp, debugging, visual studio, extension

Debugging in GDB from Visual Studio

Posted by user on 01 Dec 2015

I wanted to share some tips and tricks for those of you who use a recently released Visual Studio GDB Debugger extension. You may want to read the announcing blog post as well.

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Tags: debugging, gdb, Uncategorized, visual studio

std::chrono ambiguities

Posted by user on 30 Jan 2015

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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Tags: c++, chrono, libc++, stl, Uncategorized, visual studio

UTF-8 strings and Visual C++

Posted by user on 30 Apr 2009

MAnd Unicode came to this world - Most of us don't work in ANSI or ASCII anymore. Most of the projects I work on are either UTF-8 or UTF-16.

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Tags: c++, Uncategorized, unicode, visual studio