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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

Ranges and Views

This chapter will pick up right where we left off in the previous chapter about algorithms and their limitations. Views from the Ranges library are a powerful complement to the Algorithm library, which allows us to compose multiple transformations into a lazy evaluated view over a sequence of elements. After reading this chapter, you will understand what range views are and how to use them in combination with containers, iterators, and algorithms from the standard library.

Specifically, we'll cover the following major topics:

  • The composability of algorithms
  • Range adaptors
  • Materializing views into containers
  • Generating, transforming, and sampling elements in a range

Before we get into the Ranges library itself, let's discuss why it's been added to C++20, and why we'd want to use it.