I had a vague idea that closures could have a variety of performance implications; I did not believe that so many of the chosen and potential designs for C a...

The last article checked the landscape of various C and C extension implementations of Closures for their performance capabilities. But, there were a few twe...

Back before C++11, the recommended way to customize the behavior of an algorithm was to write a functor-struct, e.g. a small struct overloading operator(). E.g. for sorting by a specific key: struc…