A customer had a program that supported a plug-in model, and they wanted to do some analysis of how much memory those plug-ins were costing. They can already track the dynamic memory allocations performed by those plug-ins (because the plug-in model is very…

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A local pizza place has the following deals going: 2 medium (12 inch) pizzas, or 1 jumbo (18 inch) pizza Which is the better deal? There are entire websites dedicated to telling you which pizza dea…

The dust is now settling and we finally should have all proposals for new C23 features. Below you find links to some of the newer ones that I co-authored. Many previous proposals are still open bec…

Inlining is one of the most important compiler optimizations. We can often write abstractions and thin wrapper functions without incurring any performance penalty, because the compiler will expand the method for us at call site. If a function is not inlined…

In my C++ training classes, I often explain the meaning of =delete as


The library author is saying, “I know what you’re trying to do,
and what you’re trying to do is wrong.”

Expressiveness is what makes every developer’s life easier. Whether we read or write code, it is definitely easier if we don’t need to jump back and forth between files to get a sense of what’s the code all about.

Among the other new proposals for C23 that WG14 received are two brilliant gems by Alex Gilding The constexpr specifierThe void-which-binds: typesafe parametric polymorphism The first is probably w…

In legacy code, you can often spot explicit new and delete lurking in various places and waiting to produce pointer-related issues. This blog post shows six patterns to improve that erroneous style and rely on modern techniques, especially unique_ptr and…

It’s the current fashion to show error messages inline, rather than displaying a pop-up error message. Password: •••••               The password is incorrect. Please recheck it and try again. This looks prettier, I guess, but it does cause problems with…

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With the WSL subsystem on Windows, it is actually possible to run directly a Wayland compositor and clients. This blog explains how.

There's this new TV-show on Swedish Television (SVT) called Hackad ("hacked" in English), which is about a team of white hat hackers showing the audience exactly how vulnerable lots of things, people and companies are and how they can be hacked using various…