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Easier user input in C++
namespace std
Others have said this already but it's important enough to be repeated: Don't put your own definitions into ...
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Thread Pool C++ Implementation
Funny how the universe works - I just finished my own implementation of a thread pool (albeit in C++17), and it looks a lot like yours. I found this question on the front page when I went to post my ...
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Find nth Fibonacci Number, using iteration and recursion
Why do most people (on the internet) recommend using recursion because it's simpler and easier to write the program? Logically I thought that we should write it in a way that is fast and simple.
This ...
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Banking system in C++
Overview
The code is OK.
I found 1 bug.
The encapsulation is slightly lacking. You have Account as a class, which is good, but the getters/setters are not required and you have better methods to ...
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Tic Tac Toe in C++14
Here are some observations and suggestions that may help you improve your program.
Check your spelling
If you run a spell check on your comments, you'll find a number of things such as "peice" ...
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Simple NAPI wrapper around self written C++ msgpack, horrible performance
Profiling:
We could use a library like Tracy to do the sort of profiling you mention in the question. But it's quicker to ask "what's taking the most time" and get an answer with a profiler ...
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A dice game called "Greed"
Style
You're not being charged by the character; there's no need to abbreviate "count", or "ret" (which I would call "score" instead). Also, main has inconsistent brackets with the rest of the ...
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TString - An implementation of std::string
Justify text. (.rjust, .ljust, center)
That is becoming a "fat interface". These functions should be generic algorithms that can work with any string class, including yours, ...
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Compile-time sieve of Eratosthenes
I believe I can help with these things:
Obliterate macros
Obliterate raw arrays
Macros can be replaced with std::integer_sequence (C++14), and raw arrays can be ...
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C++ FlagSet: typesafe usage of enumeration as bitset/bitmask
This looks pretty good. I'd propose the following.
First, you use set_value in exactly one place. It's a pretty unnecessary function, and just this would suffice:
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"contains" function for STL containers
If you like new features, and even experimental features, you can make your code a lot cleaner.
Concepts
A lot of those arcane SFINAE techniques will be obsolete once ...
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Implement an algorithm to determine if a string has all unique characters
If I'd asked an interview question, and got this as an answer (at least as the first answer) I think my immediate reaction would be to consider it excessively clever.
To make much sense, along with ...
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128-bit unsigned integer
std::uint64_t is consistently misspelt throughout the code, and may be a poor choice anyway (since an exact 64-bit type need not be provided). It's better to use ...
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Thread Pool C++ Implementation
@osuka_ and @anderas gave some very good advice. I just have a couple things I want to add:
Macros
#define MAX_THREADS std::thread::hardware_concurrency() - 1;
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Porting C-style socket to CPP class
Avoid using malloc() in C++
There are much better ways to allocate memory in C++ that are simpler and safer. First, in C++ you should use ...
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Gray codes addition
Loop invariants code motion
This is the name of an optimization performed by most compilers: when they detect code that actually does not depend on the state of the loop, they move it out of the loop....
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Find longest lines from a file
This is a bug:
else if( record.size() > hash_table.rbegin()->second.size() )
As implemented, insertion stops once your program encounters the longest line ...
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Safe strcpy implementation with C++
Break out your type trait
You have this large amount of is_same checks in a couple places. Break it out in its own trait, and call it something like ...
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Implementation of the linked list data structure in C++
Namespace
#ifndef LINKEDLIST_H
#define LINKEDLIST_H
The term "linked list" is a common term. So I would expect somebody out there is already using the macro <...
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Ring Buffer Implementation in C++14
Coding idiomatically
Remember that #pragma once isn't standard (unlike include guards).
If you only intend your class works on major compilers, you can use ...
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Thread Pool C++ Implementation
You've received good style advice so far.
But your pool doesn't work. So let's try to address that.
1. 'resize' is both wrong and not needed.
As others mentioned, it's not thread safe. Making it so ...
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C++ function composition
Generally speaking, it is really well done, for several reasons: std::tuple often takes advantage of the empty base class optimization, which means that since you ...
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Using std::unique_ptr and std::move
Programming / detail review
Fan(Fan *peer__ = NULL);
(and some more occurrences)
Identifiers that contain a double underscore are reserved for the compiler/...
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Easier user input in C++
I've actually implemented the same functionality in the past, so here are my comments.
Wrong behaviour?
It depends on what you can consider wrong. Consider running your own example and inputting <...
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Easier user input in C++
namespace std
is reserved. Don't add stuff to it. Especially since there's no reason to in this case. Just put it in your own namespace.
unnecessary string usage
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Filtering variadic template arguments
One reason you think you require a lot of helper metafunctions is that you haven't clearly separated the code for solving the problem (filtering a list) from the code for testing the solution (e.g. <...
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Ford-Johnson merge-insertion sort
First of all, there is an error
Not a fatal error though since the algorithm still sorts the collection properly, but it actually means that the algorithm doesn't perform as few comparisons as it ...
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Sorting algorithms - Bubble sort
I recommend putting your functions into a namespace.
for (auto i = begin + 1; i != end; ++i) {
By doing begin + 1, you ...
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