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Alex Ott wrote a fascinating blog post about Boost.Spirit v2.x’s integer parser performance compared to standard C’s ‘atoi’, in one example of how C++ is faster than C in some cases. He writes:
I did very primitive test of performance for new version of boost.spirit. I read somewhere...
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As I do keep tabs on what’s going on with C++ around the web, I chanced upon this short and succinct article about ‘free’ and ‘delete’ not returning memory to the OS from Thought Garage which starts with:
When you call free() or delete(), it will NOT really release any memory...
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After a long couple of days working on some requirements of one of my consulting projects and optimizing my workflow, I’ve moved forward with moving the development of The C++ Network Library to Github. In the span of a few days, I’ve managed to move the cpp-netlib project to Github and release...
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So recently I’ve been doing more and more open source C++ development over at cpp-netlib cleaning up the implementation of a simple URI library for the release of version 0.4. I still haven’t gotten myself that MacBook Pro that I’ve always wanted to get but I did settle for an...
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It’s been quite a while since I wrote on this blog mostly because I’ve been preoccupied with some full-time consulting work I’ve been doing. Now that this particular engagement of mine is coming to a close, I’m getting more and more time on my hands to do one of the more important...