One of the first topics that I wrote in this website was related to compile time computation in C++. Recently, I was reminded of it again when I was reading a book called Hacker’s Delight where there was a chapter on computing cube root of a number. As we have seen in a previous post,…

I was watching a talk by Jonathan Bocarra on “105 STL algorithms in less than an hour” and it was a very good and an informative talk. I kept notes of the talk as I was watching and though it would be useful to look back at later: Why should you use STL algorithms? Your…

One of the significant changes that would be a part of the C++20 standard is modules. Modules are quite a significant change in the sense that it re-defines the compilation model that’s been in place so far. Let’s see how the pre-C++20 compilation model looks like. When you want to divide your programs into modules,…

At work, a colleague of mine started a new initiative, where we read new concepts of C++ and explain it to each other. Currently, we are reading an item per day from Effective Modern C++ by Scott Meyers and explaining the concepts to each other. The meeting notes are updated here: https://github.com/LithoCoders/dailycpp

One of the topics that interest me in C++ is compile-time computation. In this article, we will look at how compile-time computation is done in C++. Compile-time computation can be done in three ways I know of. One is using macros to compute constants, the second way is using template metaprogramming and the other way…