mikhailberis : generic programming

Different Forms of Polymorphism

C++ Soup! — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:54:00 GMT

In the previous post I teased a little about vtables, how they work, and whether people were familiar with them. Before I go into detail into that I'd like to rehash the notion of polymorphism first. It may be obvious already to OOP programmers or...(read more)

Value Semantics and Polymorphism

C++ Soup! — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 14:03:00 GMT

Lately I've been interested in formalising the notion of value semantics for one reason or another. I've been in email conversations with other people who have been interested in making value semantics and value-oriented programming the norm in...(read more)

cpp-netlib: Reducing Compilation Times

C++ Soup! — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 16:35:19 GMT

Earlier today I spent some time to get paperwork done for my application to get an Australian Visa. I’ll write more about the reason for that at a later time, but right now I want to write about a glaring issue (the white elephant in the room I...(read more)

Generic Programming Barriers to Entry

C++ Soup! — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:42:09 GMT

I thought about the subject a little more and tried to look into myself and what was stopping me from learning generic programming earlier in my C++ programming experience. One recent interview I had still sold C++ as an Object Oriented Programming language...(read more)

Using Generic Programming in cpp-netlib

C++ Soup! — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 14:15:10 GMT

I wanted to write about this yesterday but I was dealing with the end-of-week correspondence and some phone calls I had to take. Somehow yesterday I wasn’t feeling up to it, so today I spent some time with cpp-netlib development and refactored an...(read more)

Generic Programming in Your Domain

C++ Soup! — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 16:53:57 GMT

It’s not a secret that C++ is used in a wide domain of applications. There’s high performance computing, scientific computing, desktop application development, systems programming, server-side web application development, back-end services...(read more)