Generic programming and template metaprogramming are not faster than c. Things like template, which look really weird but behave in an even more bizarre way. Abr01 david abrahams and carlos pinto coelho, effects of metaprogramming style on. Dobbs journal, june 03, 2005 if youre like me, youre excited by what people do with template metaprogramming tmp but are frustrated at the lack of clear guidance and powerful. C template metaprogramming david abrahams and aleksey gurtovoy pdf. Read online, or download in secure pdf or secure epub format. Metaprogramming is a programming technique in which computer programs have the ability to treat other programs as their data. A metaprogram is a program that generates or manipulates program code. This post starts a series of articles following the contrived and tortuous path down insanity lane. Concepts, tools, and techniques from boost and beyond.
Is template metaprogramming faster than the equivalent c code. An introduction to metaprogramming for scientific computing dr conrad sanderson senior research scientist version 1. Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books. Template metaprogramming tmp is a metaprogramming technique in which templates are used by a compiler to generate temporary source code, which is merged by the compiler with the rest of the source code and then compiled.
The use of templates can be thought of as compiletime polymorphism. Pdf c template metaprogramming download full pdf book. With the help of cleverly dened templates the programmer can execute algorithms at compilation time. Concepts, tools, and techniques from boost and beyond ebook written by david abrahams, aleksey gurtovoy. Template metaprogramming is generally not used in practical programs, it is an interesting conecpt though. Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the library of congress catalog. Abrahams and gurtovoy have written something close to a classic. There have been some articles dealing with template metaprogramming before over here. Dobbs journal, june 03, 2005 if youre like me, youre excited by what people do with template metaprogramming tmp but are frustrated at the lack of clear guidance and powerful tools. The complete guide since it is also the definitive reference for templates in general.
The output of these templates include compiletime constants, data structures, and complete functions. C template metaprogramming david abrahams and aleksey gurtovoy pdf c template metaprogramming sheds light on the most powerful idioms of todays c, at long last delivering practical metaprogramming tools and. After youve bought this ebook, you can choose to download either the pdf version or the epub. Template metaprogramming is in fact turingcomplete, meaning that any computation expressible by a computer program can be computed, in some form, by a template metaprogram.
While i consider myself falling rather in the camp of the aficionados, ive met a lot more people that dont have a strong interest for it, or that even find it downright disgusting, than tmp enthusiasts. Ever since generic programming was introduced to c programmers have discovered myriad template tricks for manipulating programs as they are compiled effectively eliminating the barrier between program and metaprogram. Concepts, tools, and techniques from boost and beyond pdf, epub, docx and torrent then this site is not for you. It means that a program can be designed to read, generate, analyze or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running. Concepts, tools, and techniques from boost and beyond pdf,, download ebookee alternative successful tips for a improve ebook reading experience.