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Software Architecture with C++

By : Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski
Book Image

Software Architecture with C++

By: Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski

Overview of this book

Software architecture refers to the high-level design of complex applications. It is evolving just like the languages we use, but there are architectural concepts and patterns that you can learn to write high-performance apps in a high-level language without sacrificing readability and maintainability. If you're working with modern C++, this practical guide will help you put your knowledge to work and design distributed, large-scale apps. You'll start by getting up to speed with architectural concepts, including established patterns and rising trends, then move on to understanding what software architecture actually is and start exploring its components. Next, you'll discover the design concepts involved in application architecture and the patterns in software development, before going on to learn how to build, package, integrate, and deploy your components. In the concluding chapters, you'll explore different architectural qualities, such as maintainability, reusability, testability, performance, scalability, and security. Finally, you will get an overview of distributed systems, such as service-oriented architecture, microservices, and cloud-native, and understand how to apply them in application development. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build distributed services using modern C++ and associated tools to deliver solutions as per your clients' requirements.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Section 1: Concepts and Components of Software Architecture
5
Section 2: The Design and Development of C++ Software
6
Architectural and System Design
10
Section 3: Architectural Quality Attributes
15
Section 4: Cloud-Native Design Principles
21
About Packt

Passing numeric arguments to a microbenchmark

A common need when designing experiments like ours is to check it on different sizes of arguments. Such needs can be addressed in Google Benchmark in a number of ways. The simplest is to just add a call to Args() on the object returned by the BENCHMARK macros. This way, we can pass a single set of values to use in a given microbenchmark. To use the passed value, we'd need to change our benchmark function as follows:

void search_in_sorted_vector(benchmark::State &state, auto finder) {
  const auto haystack = make_sorted_vector<int>(state.range(0));
  const auto needle = 2137;
  for (auto _ : state) {
    benchmark::DoNotOptimize(finder(haystack, needle));
  }
}

The call to state.range(0) will read the 0-th argument passed. An arbitrary number can be supported. In our case, it's used to parameterize the haystack size. What if we wanted to pass a range of value sets instead? This way, we could see how changing the size influences...