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New (& Old) C++ Standard Library Containers - How to Choose the Right Container in C++26 and BeyondACCU 20252025-04-01
Shows that naive container choice costs huge time: a simulation spikes 100× with scaling and one rewrite cuts a 7h15 run to ~30 minutes by recycling…
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“How to Choose the Right Standard Library Container, and Why You Should Want Some More”CppCon 20192019-09-15
Three concrete case studies compare list, vector, deque, a homegrown shifty vector, and colony on real tests (10k widgets, queue ≈10). Visual Studio 2017…
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Moving Faster: Everyday efficiency in modern C++CppCon 20182018-09-23
Argues that performance almost always matters and gives concrete fixes: count heap allocations, treat cache misses as the new floating point divides, prefer…
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Loop Exit Blocks: A proposal for C++20C++Now 20182018-05-06
Proposal for an end-of-loop syntax that attaches two optional blocks: one runs when a loop finishes naturally and one runs when it exits by break. Concrete…
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