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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

The motivation for the Ranges library

With the introduction of the Ranges library to C++20 came some major improvements to how we benefit from the standard library when implementing algorithms. The following list shows the new features:

  • Concepts that define requirements on iterators and ranges can now be better checked by the compiler and provide more help during development
  • New overloads of all functions in the <algorithm> header are constrained with the concepts just mentioned and accept ranges as arguments rather than iterator pairs
  • Constrained iterators in the iterator header
  • Range views, which make it possible to compose algorithms

This chapter will focus on the last item: the concept of views, which allow us to compose algorithms to avoid the unnecessary copying of data to owning containers. To fully understand the importance of this, let's begin by demonstrating the lack of composability within the algorithm library.

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