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Configuring algorithms in Modern C++

When designing library code, one often wonders: “Are these all the parameters this function will ever need?” and “How can a user conveniently change one parameter without specifying the rest?” This post introduces some Modern C++ techniques you can use to make passing configuration options easy for your users while allowing you to add more options later on.


A beginner's guide to C++ Ranges and Views.

C++ Ranges are one of the major new things in C++20 and “views” are a big part of ranges. This article is a short introduction for programmers that are new to C++ Ranges.


Tutorial: Writing your first view from scratch (C++20 / P0789)

C++17 was officially released last year and the work on C++20 quickly took off. A subset of the Concepts TS was merged and the first part of the Ranges TS has been accepted, too. Currently the next part of the Ranges TS is under review: “Range Adaptors and Utilities”. It brings the much-hyped “Views” to C++, but maybe you have been using them already via the Range-V3 library? In any case you might have wondered what you need to do to actually write your own view. This is the first in a series of blog posts describing complete view implementations (not just adaptations of existing ones).


The - surprisingly limited - usefulness of function multiversioning in GCC

Modern CPUs have quite a few features that generic amd64/intel64 code cannot make use of, simply because they are not available everywhere and including them would break the code on unsupporting platforms. The solution is to not use these features, or ship different specialised binaries for different target CPUs. The problem with the first approach is that you miss out on possible optimisations and the problem with the second approach is that most users don’t know which features their CPUs support, possibly picking a wrong executable (which won’t run → bad user experience) or a less optimised one (which is again problem 1). But there is an elegant GCC-specific alternative: Function multiversioning!