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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to use the basic concepts in the Algorithm library, the advantages of using them as building blocks instead of handwritten for-loops, and why using the standard Algorithm library is beneficial for optimizing your code at a later stage. We also discussed the guarantees and trade-offs of the standard algorithms, meaning that you can, from now on, use them with confidence.

By using the advantages of the algorithms instead of manual for-loops, your code base is well prepared for the parallelization techniques that will be discussed in the coming chapters of this book. One key feature that the standard algorithms are missing is the possibility to compose algorithms, something that was highlighted when we tried to avoid unnecessary container copies. In the next chapter, you will learn how to use views from the C++ Ranges library to overcome this limitation of standard algorithms.