In my cpp11-on-multicore project on GitHub, there’s a class that packs three 10-bit values into a 32-bit integer. I could have implemented it using traditional bitfields& …

Facebook wants to show you how the sausage is made. Facebook is open-sourcing its AI bot-building research. Part of its Facebook AI Research (FAIR) lab’s mission, the plan is to provide better access to researchers and engineers to they, in turn, can build…

For those familiar with languages like Java, and C#, something like NullPointerException shouldn’t come as a surprise. But what about C++? C++ also …

Quick, what’s the difference between these two C/C++ definitions of initialized local variables? char buffer[32] = { 0 };char buffer[32] = {}; One difference is that the first is legal in C a…

This tutorial teaches Vulkan API basics with instructions and code to render a triangle to the screen.

An analysis of performance of raw pointers vs smart pointers in few C++ benchmarks. The operations tested are creation, copy, data access and destruction.

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Having made a good start on Gx and having set up a game project that links to the Gx headers and lib (in-place in the Gx project for ease of update),...

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The relative performance of C and C++ is the stuff of folk legends and Very Strong Opinions. There are microbenchmarks that can prove differ...