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CppCon 2016: Chandler Carruth “High Performance Code 201: Hybrid Data Structures"

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Software performance & optimizationC, C++, Rust, Go & systems languagesAlgorithms & data structures

What it is

Chandler Carruth's CppCon 2016 talk on designing hybrid data structures for performance. He covers cache locality, working-set size and allocation overhead, and why standard C++ containers fall short.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Cited as the source for criticism of std::deque and move-constructor pitfalls, and as motivation to write custom data structures.

  • 1 people recommended it
  • 1 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2016, last 2021

What HN commenters said

  1. “I suggest watching this talk”

    Explains why STL falls short and to write own datastructures

    typon, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “EASTL: An Alternative C++ Standard Library”

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Topics: chandler carruth, cppcon, performance, cache locality, stl

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