Choosing an appropriate C++ container impacts memory layout, cache efficiency, and access patterns, vital for performance. Common comparisons include std::vector, std::deque, std::array, std::list,…

This is a follow-up to making the rav1d video decoder 1% faster, where we compared profiler snapshots of rav1d (the Rust implementation) and dav1d (the C …

Introducing kv, a statically allocated key/value server.

I’ve been a computer programmer all-told for 43 years. That’s more than half the entire history of electronic programmable computers. In that time, I’ve seen a lot of things chang…

This article collects small, self-contained, and practical examples for working with std::chrono calendar types.
The previous blog post - see Exploring C++20 std::chrono - Calendar Types - C++ Stories - focused on the building blocks: calendar types, operators…

Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes. Quite…

The last article checked the landscape of various C and C extension implementations of Closures for their performance capabilities. But, there were a few twe...

With the rise of LSPs, query-based compilers have emerged as a new architecture. That architecture is much more similar and also different to Signals than I initial assumed them to be.

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Why std::move is just a cast, how it kills RVO if used wrong, and the mechanics of ownership transfer.