Type Erasure, SIMD-Within-a-Register and more

Eduardo Madrid joins Phil and Timur. Eduardo talks to us about the Zoo libraries, including his advanced type-erasure library, as well as the SWAR library which simulates ad-hoc SIMD within a register. We also discuss how he has taken inspiration and cues from the worlds of Biology and Physics to arrive at new thinking around software development, design and architecture.

News

• QT 6.8 is released
• "Named Loops" proposal adopted into C - will C++ follow?
• C++ Online Call for Speakers is open

Links

• The Zoo libraries
• "C++ Software Design" (book) - Klaus Iglberger
• Klaus Iglberger's talks on Type Erasure:
  • "A Design Analysis"
  • "The Implementation Details"
• (Some of ) Ed's talks:
  • "Using Integers as Arrays of Bitfields a.k.a. SWAR Techniques - CppCon 2019"
  • "Rehashing Hash Tables And Associative Containers" - C++ Now 2022"
  • "Empowerment with the C++ Generic Programming Paradigm" - C++ Online 2024