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C++ High Performance - Second Edition

By : Björn Andrist, Viktor Sehr
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Book Image

C++ High Performance - Second Edition

5 (2)
By: Björn Andrist, Viktor Sehr

Overview of this book

C++ High Performance, Second Edition guides you through optimizing the performance of your C++ apps. This allows them to run faster and consume fewer resources on the device they're running on without compromising the readability of your codebase. The book begins by introducing the C++ language and some of its modern concepts in brief. Once you are familiar with the fundamentals, you will be ready to measure, identify, and eradicate bottlenecks in your C++ codebase. By following this process, you will gradually improve your style of writing code. The book then explores data structure optimization, memory management, and how it can be used efficiently concerning CPU caches. After laying the foundation, the book trains you to leverage algorithms, ranges, and containers from the standard library to achieve faster execution, write readable code, and use customized iterators. It provides hands-on examples of C++ metaprogramming, coroutines, reflection to reduce boilerplate code, proxy objects to perform optimizations under the hood, concurrent programming, and lock-free data structures. The book concludes with an overview of parallel algorithms. By the end of this book, you will have the ability to use every tool as needed to boost the efficiency of your C++ projects.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Introducing the standard library algorithms

Integrating the standard library algorithms into your C++ vocabulary is important. In this introduction, I will present a set of common problems that can be solved effectively by using the standard library algorithms.

C++20 comes with a dramatic change to the Algorithm library by the introduction of the Ranges library and the language feature of C++ concepts. So, before we start, we need a brief background of the history of the C++ standard library.

Evolution of the standard library algorithms

You have probably heard about STL algorithms or STL containers. And hopefully, you have heard about the new Ranges library introduced with C++20. There have been a lot of additions to the standard library in C++20. And before going further, I need to clear up some terminology. We'll start with the STL.

The STL, or the Standard Template Library, was initially the name of a library added to the C++ standard library in the 1990s...