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The C++26 inplace_vector container

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The C++26 standard features a new container called std::inplace_vector, that sits in between the std::array and std::vector containers. It’s a container with a compiled-time fix capacity – like std::array, but a runtime variable size – like std::vector. In this article, we will discuss how it works and when to use it. A tale of two … Read more

Colors Game Redux

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Two days ago I posted a simple implementation of a game of colors. Though it was intended only as an exercise, someone has criticizes the use of an int** to hold the grid information, mainly for two reasons: the footprint on 64-bit platforms can get nasty the explicitly allocated memory, instead of using a std::vector … Read more