Questions tagged [c++14]
C++14 is the successor to the C++11 standard, adding incremental improvements and some new language and library features.
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Alternatives to macro [on hold]
Macros are the root of almost all evil, but in my source base I use a lot of them to shorten or to simplify code. What are common approaches to avoid them? E.g. I wrote a Python wrapper that should be ...
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Function composition in C++
My aim was to create a function which behaves like the operator . in Haskell.
Here is what I made:
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Multithreading Ticket class to wait for parallel task completion
I've implemented a "Ticket" class which is shared as a shared_ptr between multiple threads.
The program flow is like this:
parallelQuery() is called to start a new query job. A shared instance of ...
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C++14 AtomicRoundRobinPool for sharing a pool of keys
The idea here is that we have some resource that is relatively very expensive to generate, but once we have a bunch of them in a pool, we can keep reusing them instead of generating new ones. "HTTP ...
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Detecting existence of a class member
I wanted to detect if I have a member in a simple POD struct and after some searching and merging some methods I found on the web I've come up with this solution:
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“When to take medicine” CodeChef Challenge MEDIC
I just submitted this code to solve the "When to take medicine" challenge on CodeChef:
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String manipulation with std::adjacent_find
For the given strings (not containing numbers), print their shortened
versions, where each adjacent sequence of the same characters longer
than 2, change to an expression consisting of a sign and ...
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c++14 move constructor and assignment in simple list
I’m moving from c98 to c++14 and I’m trying to figure out how to write move correctly.
I just wrote the simplest list with no functionality, just testing the construction and copy behavior. I would ...
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Thread Pool C++ Implementation
I have been working on this thread pool for awhile to make it as simple to use as possible. I need some tips on improving performance, and some good ways to test its performance. I was wondering if ...
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Determine if matrix exists or not [closed]
any help with optimizing following code to make it run faster.
Tried making function inline, tried cin.TIE(NULL), tried ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
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AVL tree implementation using shared_ptr/unique_ptr
I have implemented an AVL tree using shared_ptr. I know that there is an overhead regarding using shared_ptr and instead a unique_ptr could be used. But the thing is that my node contains also a ...
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128-bit unsigned integer
This implements 128-bit unsigned integer using C++14.
It works on MSVC and 32-bit architectures being complementary to the unsigned __int128 type provided by GCC ...
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Safe pointer casting : static_cast or dynamic_cast
Context: I'm using the clone pattern for creating copies of polymorphic classes which may use virtual inheritance (I hope to get rid of the latter). So when calling ...
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C++ Producer / Consumer multi threads pattern with maximum container size
I've just written a Producer / Consumer pattern templatized that should work in multi threads environment (IE producer(s) and consumer(s) in separate threads).
The original use case is one producer ...
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`std::optional` under C++14 v1
This is a first version of an implementation of std::optional it is supposed to compile under C++14. The public interface of the class is complete, but there are ...
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(Follow-up) Project Euler #11 Largest Product in a Grid | Cache-optimized + sliding window (C++14)
Original code review: Project Euler #11 Largest Product in a Grid | Cache-optimized + sliding window (C++14)
Source: HackerRank & ProjectEuler.net
Problem: Largest Product in a Grid
In the 20×...
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Project Euler #11 Largest Product in a Grid | Cache-optimized + sliding window (C++14)
Source: HackerRank & ProjectEuler.net
Problem: Largest Product in a Grid
In the 20×20 grid below, four numbers along a diagonal line have been marked in red.
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Code to find the sums of building heights
Remains
You've recently stumbled upon the remains of a ruined ancient city. Luckily, you've studied enough ancient architecture to know how the buildings were laid out.
The city had \$n\$ ...
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Create a simple job system using a mutex-locked task queue
Although an experienced gameplay programmer, I'm relatively new to multithreading. I've attempted an implementation of a job system that my WIP 2D engine uses: it provides "engine" and "game" workers, ...
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Builder pattern that forces all members to be initialized at compile-time [closed]
This java answer made me wonder whether it would be possible to implement the builder pattern in C++ in a way that checks at compile-time whether all necessary members of the constructed object are ...
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Quicksort template (for sorting corresponding arrays)
I needed a function for sorting two corresponding arrays. So I wrote this code to sort N corresponding arrays!
The really "metaprogrammy" way to do it would be to use ...
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SplitSort — An adaptive algorithm to handle collections with few inversions
SplitSort
SplitSort is a rather simple Inv-adaptive and Rem-adaptive sorting algorithm described in Splitsort — an adaptive sorting algorithm by Christos Levcopoulos and Ola Petersson. The paper ...
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Automatic RAII wrapper for concurrent access
Probably many people had to work with multithreaded applications with C++ and can understand how messy can be fine-grained locking of objects.
So once in a while I came to idea of implementing some ...
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Largest binary gap
I took a task from Codility to find longest sequence of zeros in binary representation of an integer.
For example, number 9 has binary representation 1001 and contains a binary gap of length 2. ...
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C++ template-based dimension-tagged type
I'm writing a small C++14 library for myself that allows me to decorate a type with dimensionality information, so that I can leverage the template/type system to avoid mistakes such as adding ...
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Simple Matrix Template Class
I wanted to make a matrix template class to see if I can learn how to use templates, work on figuring out the indexing in loops, and making an interface so the user can know if an operation will work. ...
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C++ data type to store and manipulate individual bits
The use cases I’m facing require me to have a C++ data type that can store and manipulate the state of somewhere between 400 and 500 bits. In addition it is necessary to be able to store that state ...
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HackerRank: Fraudulent activity notification
I wanted to get some constructive feedback on my solution to the Fraudulent Activity Notification problem from HackerRank:
HackerLand National Bank has a simple policy for warning clients about ...
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Stable-sorting all even numbers before odd numbers in a linked list
Given a Linked List of integers, write a function to modify the linked
list such that all even numbers appear before all the odd numbers in
the modified linked list. Also, keep the order of even ...
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Advent of Code 2018 Day 13 - Detect mine cart collisions
This is a solution to Advent of Code Day 13 (problem specification, test input), for which I was asked to read a layout of tracks and mine carts and detect 1) where the first crash would occur and 2) ...
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Ring Buffer Implementation in C++14
A ring buffer or circular buffer is a fixed sized queue that advances head and tail pointers in a modulo manner rather than moving the data. Ring buffers are often used in embedded computer design.
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Designing a configurable Discrete Event Simulation class
A bit of context: I've had a fair share of programming in Java but want to refine my C++ skills with a college task. I've wanted to focus on C++11 and C++14, as they are recent but not latest, and C++...
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Bist-o-yek: a card game similar to Blackjack
Bist-o-yek (21) is a Persian card game very similar to blackjack, except it doesn't have things like double down and split. I did, though, change it a little. For example, added dealer dealing to 17.
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A game called Bocce played on a Cartesian grid
You may know Bocce, so you should know that I've tweaked the rules a little. Three types of balls are thrown: a red type, a blue type, and single black ball called the jack.
These are all on the ...
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A dice game called “Greed”
This game is a variation of the Greed dice game. Imagine we have 5 dice. We roll, them, and jot down the results. Then, based on this chart:
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ASCII Mandelbrot
First of all, let me answer the question that a lot of you may have:
The Mandelbrot set is the set of values of c in the complex plane for which the orbit of 0 under iteration of the quadratic map ...
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An ASCII histogram of a die rolled n times
A die is rolled n times. Each time, a random value has been inserted into a vector. This vector then is used to generate a sorted map (wrongly called hashmap in the code) that is later used to create ...
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Finding the common iterator category in C++
I created a template trait which finds the common iterator category between a set of given iterator categories. More specifically, it's a class with a member type alias to one of the iterator tags ...
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C++ heap CPS: Continuation Passing Style with Recursion
I am willing to see how to write readable and efficient continuations on the heap in c++. I am not quite satisfied.
The following is just an exercise: it is coded for fun. I post the code here ...
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Using HashMaps to track parent and rank of graph nodes
I often find myself in the following position: I have created a class in some file, and would like to add a new data member to that class without changing the original class definition. Now, you ...
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Basic arithmetic calculator with float, parentheses and operator priority support
Summary: The basic calculator which allows the end-user to calculate the value by evaluating the math expression string. It supports all the main arithmetic operators, also extended by modulo and ...
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Custom serialiser with object factory
A couple of years ago I wrote a serialisation library for my project. By the time it worked well, but recently I thought it could be modernised. Back then I needed something that looks similar to ...
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For pairs of elements, count the ones whose XOR value is a sum of two primes [closed]
An array is given with 'n' Values ( n <= 10^5 ) ; we have to calculate xor of each pair of elements and count those pairs whose xor can be written as sum of two prime numbers with the same parity(...
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Odd Even Subarrays
I've been trying to understand Dynamic Programming lately, here's the question I just attempted:
You are given an array A of N positive integer values. A subarray of this array is called an Odd-...
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C++ linked list inheritance hierarchy
I'm about to post quite a bit of code. Hopefully, someone is willing to put some time into reviewing it all. I know linked lists have been done a lot on here, but I wanted to improve the basic C++ ...
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How to use a predicate to create or filter vector [closed]
I have function which returns a vector or strings (values from an sqlite3 table).
For each of those strings I need to generate a Qt Checkbox, if it does not exist yet.
My first version looks like ...
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Hacker Rank Challenge : Find count of substrings which are special palindrome
I am getting timeout for test cases having very large input.
-= Challenge Link =-
-= Test case example =-
Code is working fine as can be checked on ideone. (Note: Here ...
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Find the first palindrome larger than the given number
Question
Input number of test cases.
Input each test case and output its next palindrome number.
Link: https://www.spoj.com/problems/PALIN/
Language Used: C++14 (gcc 6.3)
My code
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C++ workqueue class
This is a nice workqueue class template to keep the gui fluid, while data is being written into a database or into some file/network...
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Endless stream: stream a range and return default value if the range is exhausted
Introduction:
Motivation
Sometimes there is a need to merge N > 1 ranges, and they don't have equal length, but there is a value which can be used in case the range is already exhausted. It is ...
