Save 35% off the list price of the related book or multiformat ebook. The book deals with language aspects, design patterns, examples and applications seen as case studies. Pdf c template metaprogramming download ebook for free. A metaprogram is a program that generates or manipulates program code. Weve had the idea of writing about template metaprogramming for. Concepts, tools, and techniques from boost and beyond ebook written by david abrahams, aleksey gurtovoy. 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. But most of the time, template metaprogramming is used and useful in small, isolated cases, basically to smooth out bumps and exceptional cases, to make a set of types look and behave uniformly, allowing you to use generic programming more efficiently. Concepts, tools, and techniques from boost and beyond with cd 05 edition 9780321227256 by david abrahams and.
Abrahams and gurtovoy have written something close to a classic. Read c template metaprogramming online, read in mobile or kindle. Before going into the description of our obfuscator, it is necessary to give some basis of the mechanism involved. And inspiring introduction to template metaprogramming. An introduction to metaprogramming for scientific computing dr conrad sanderson senior research scientist version 1. Variadic template data pack strucuture designed for debugtrace log variablesized records 12. First, i must thank you for such a wonderful tutorial. Compiling the code from template metaprogramming xiv. In addition to nico josuttis and myself, doug gregor clang pioneer, swift co. It means that a program could be designed to read, generate, analyse or transform other programs, and even modify itself while running. Lets have a look at a simple problem that can be solved in two very different ways.
The use of templates can be thought of as compiletime execution. Template metaprogramming tmp is a metaprogramming technique in which templates are. So, ill recommend the new edition of my book mentioned by the other answers. The two newer necessities arent used in the code in order that the examples might. The complete guide provides software architects and engineers with a clear understanding of why, when, and how to use templates to build and maintain cleaner, faster, and smarter software more efficiently. Template metaprogramming is an emerging new direction of generative programming. Originally, templates were designed to enable generic programming and provide type safety. Not only can you use it to build generic types such as the stls stdlist, you can also use it to have compiletime evaluation.
By using a template parameter, the rectangle can be. By relying on recursive template instantiationa mainstay of template based metaprogrammingwe can perform type computations that are considerably more complex. But really its nothing more than overload resolution. In c, the qsort function takes a pointer to a comparison function, so there will be one copy of the qsort code that is not inlined. The compilation time takes longer since we now execute code during compiletime. Download c template metaprogramming ebook free in pdf and epub format. Metaprogramming is the writing of computer programs with the ability to treat programs as their data. Template metaprogramming can be used to automatically produce the right type.
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