eddic 1.2.3 – Better data-flow analysis

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I finally finished the version 1.2.3 of eddic. I have been quite busy finishing my master thesis in february and then taking some vacations in United States, so this version came later than I wanted. The main change is about the speed of the data-flow optimizations. I refactored a lot the data-flow to make it [...]



eddic 1.2.2 – Performances, improved optimizations and additions to standard library

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These last weeks, I had more work than expected with my Master thesis so it took me longer to finish this new version of eddic. Moreover, I included more stuff than I though in this version. Anyway, I’m happy to announce the version 1.2.2 of eddic. It is a minor version regarding the language itself. [...]



eddic 1.2.1 – string, concatenation and vector

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Before preparing myself for New Year’s Eve, I decided to finish eddic 1.2.1, and it’s done ! This version is a small one, but add several improvements to the language and to the standard library. Many bugs have been fixed especially in the support of dynamic arrays and structures. The first important change is that [...]



Christmas offer – Buy 2 or more Packt Publishing eBooks for $5 each

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For Christmas, Packt Publishing has an awesome offer available to everybody All eBooks from Packt Publishing are now available for only 5$ (€4 | £3 | AUS$5) each when you buy two or more eBooks. The offer is available until Thursday 3rd Jan 2013. More information about the promotion: Stock your reader this christmas



eddic 1.2.0 – Single inheritance, copy construction

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I’m happy to release the version 1.2.0 of the EDDI Compiler (eddic). This new version introduces several major changes to the language. First of all, structures can now inherits from another structure. When it is done, the structure can use the members of the parent class. Below is an example of single inheritance in EDDI: [...]



C++ Benchmark – std::list VS boost::intrusive::list

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Recently, we saw that the std::list performance was not really good when it comes to searching it or iterating through it.In this post, we will see an alternative to the std::list: the boost::intrusive::list from the Boost C++ libraries. It is not a well known library but it can be useful in some specific cases. I [...]



New WordPress Plugin – Google Visualization Charts

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As I started writing some big benchmarks, I discovered that there were no really good plugins to generate graphs in WordPress (at least not free ones). Then, I discovered the Google Visualization API that generates awesome charts. I decided to create a new WordPress plugin to help generates these charts. The Google Visualization API is [...]



CMake Testing – Rerun the last failed tests with CTest

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Some time ago, we saw how to use CMake to run Boost Tests in paralel, now it is time for another tip. A feature that I think is lacking in CMake/CTest is a way to launch only the last failed tests. As it is not possible to do that directly, I posted the question on [...]



C++ benchmark – std::vector VS std::list VS std::deque

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Last week, I wrote a benchmark comparing the performance of std::vector and std::list on different workloads. This previous article received a lot of comments and several suggestions to improve it. The present article is an improvement over the previous article. In this article, I will compare the performance of std::vector, std::list and std::deque on several [...]



C++ benchmark – std::vector VS std::list

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A updated version of this article is available: C++ benchmark – std::vector VS std::list VS std::deque In C++, the two most used data structures are the std::vector and the std::list. In this article, we will compare the performance in practice of these two data structures on several different workloads. In this article, when I talk [...]