C++

Some links to pages I have found useful in programming and solving specific problems in C++

Tools I want to learn

• Yap
• Easy just-in-time

Some pages I've had open for way too long and wanted to bookmark so I could finally close them

20181004

• Perf examples
• Performance analysis using Great Performance Tools and Linux Trace Toolkit next generation
• How to find performance bottlenecks in your application
• Profiling c++ on mac os x
• Dumping a C++ object's memory layout with Clang
• The cost of dynamic (virtual calls) vs. static (CRTP) dispatch in C++
• C++ Devirtualization
• How does the compiler benefit from C++'s new final keyword?
• Why make your classes final?

Libraries

• Boost::Yap - a video from the author

Templates

• One thing per thing
• Templight A tool for querying template instantiations in Clang

Compile time

• Detemining what's taking GCC so gdang glong
• CppCon 2017: Herb Sutter “Meta: Thoughts on generative C++”

Boost.Spirit

• Profiling and optimizing Spirit::Qi parsers

Eigen

• Matrix multiplication performance: C++ (eigen) is much slower than Python

Build systems -- Autotools

• Version numbers for shared libraries, through libtool
• Another page on version numbers for libtool

Build systems - CMake

• CMake antipatterns

Misc

• This fabulous free site on game programming Yes, programming NAG is a game. Everything is.
• A course on programming for correctness
• Howard Hinnant's programming guidelines
• Breaking the x86 instruction set
• Psychological warfare