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So one of the cool news items that came about in the Boost mailing list is the news that Boost.Phoenix’s version 3 ported to use Boost.Proto. Just quickly, Boost.Proto is a compile-time expression templates compilation/evaluation engine written in C++ to allow for creating domain-specific embedded...
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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...