C++
C++ is a general-purpose programming language. It was originally designed as an extension to C, and keeps a similar syntax, but is now a completely different language. Use this tag for questions about code (to be) compiled with a C++ compiler. Use a version specific tag for questions related to a specific standard revision [C++11], [C++17], etc.
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How can I see the assembly code for a C++ program?
How can I see the assembly code for a C++ program? What are the popular tools to do this?
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How do I achieve the theoretical maximum of 4 FLOPs per cycle?
How can the theoretical peak performance of 4 floating point operations (double precision) per cycle be achiev
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Why does C++ code for testing the Collatz conjecture run faster than hand-written assembly?
I wrote these two solutions for Project Euler Q14, in assembly and in C++. They implement identical brute forc
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Replacing a 32-bit loop counter with 64-bit introduces crazy performance deviations with _mm_popcnt_u64 on Intel CPUs
I was looking for the fastest way to popcount large arrays of data. I encountered a very weird effect: Changin
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Is < faster than <=?
Is if (a < 901) faster than if (a <= 900)? Not exactly as in this simple example, but there are slight p
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How can I profile C++ code running on Linux?
I have a C++ application, running on Linux, which I'm in the process of optimizing. How can I pinpoint wh
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LNK2038: mismatch detected for 'RuntimeLibrary': value 'MT_StaticRelease' doesn't match value 'MD_DynamicRelease' in file.obj
I am Integrating Matlab, C and Cuda together in a project. I used Matlab mix in order to connect matlab mx fun
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Why do C++ libraries and frameworks never use smart pointers?
I read in a few articles that raw pointers should almost never be used. Instead they should always be wrapped
