Nothing new here, but old things being used in clever ways.

Consider the following example of an “STL-style algorithm,”
taken from a lab exercise in one of my training courses:

template<class It>
bool is_palindrome(It first, It last) {
while (first != last) {
--last;
if (first == last) break;…

Before C++17, we had a few quite ugly-looking ways to write static if (if that works at compile time). For example, you could use tag dispatching or SFINAE. Fortunately, that’s changed, and we can now benefit from if constexpr and concepts from C++20!
Let’s…

Getting them into a register.

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Finding a needle in the haystack of the 64-bit address space.

The load and store part of the load/store architecture.