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Hands-On Functional Programming with C++

By : Alexandru Bolboaca
Book Image

Hands-On Functional Programming with C++

By: Alexandru Bolboaca

Overview of this book

Functional programming enables you to divide your software into smaller, reusable components that are easy to write, debug, and maintain. Combined with the power of C++, you can develop scalable and functional applications for modern software requirements. This book will help you discover the functional features in C++ 17 and C++ 20 to build enterprise-level applications. Starting with the fundamental building blocks of functional programming and how to use them in C++, you’ll explore functions, currying, and lambdas. As you advance, you’ll learn how to improve cohesion and delve into test-driven development, which will enable you in designing better software. In addition to this, the book covers architectural patterns such as event sourcing to help you get to grips with the importance of immutability for data storage. You’ll even understand how to “think in functions” and implement design patterns in a functional way. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to write faster and cleaner production code in C++ with the help of functional programming.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Section 1: Functional Building Blocks in C++
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Section 2: Design with Functions
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Section 3: Reaping the Benefits of Functional Programming
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Section 4: The Present and Future of Functional Programming in C++

Optimizing execution time with asynchronous code

When we have multiple threads, we can use two close techniques to optimize the execution time: parallel execution and asynchronous execution. We've seen how parallel execution works in a previous section; what about asynchronous calls?

First, let's remind ourselves what asynchronous calls are. We would like to make a call, continue normally on the main thread, and get the result back at some point in the future. To me, this sounds like a perfect job for functions. We just need to call functions, let them execute, and talk to them again after a while.

Since we've talked about the future, let's talk about the future construct in C++.

Futures

We've already...