Returning to C++

published at 18.05.2023 16:19 by Jens Weller
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Not that I've been away from C++, its just that for the last few years I've been busy with other things to start new projects. And hence mostly did take care of written, productive code. But this has changed now, and I'd like to take my time and learn whats new in C++ land and how to apply this to my new code.

Looking at C++ skills from candidates by regions

published at 26.04.2023 17:41 by Jens Weller
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For over 2 years Meeting C++ organizes an online C++ job fair, featuring a form to share your CV/resume with the sponsoring employers. This post is about looking at the aggregate from this form filtered through the regions, which is continents in this case.

Could a polymorphic memory resource (PMR) improve last weeks results?

published at 31.03.2023 17:28 by Jens Weller
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I've been wondering if there is another easy way to improve performance of last weeks post on using boyer_moore_horspool search for replacing strings.

Is boyer_moore_horspool faster then std::string::find?

published at 23.03.2023 15:43 by Jens Weller
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On Wednesday I've read an interesting blog post by Julien Jorge on Effortful Performance Improvements, where it is shown how to improve an replace function which runs replacements on a string. Its part of a series on performance and improving a code base, you should go read all of them!

What do number conversions cost?

published at 16.03.2023 17:14 by Jens Weller
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And so the devil said: "what if there is an easier design AND implementation?"

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