A few months ago I finished reading Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning. After having read books both about the nazi and the communist destruction in the 20th century, this was yet another depress...

In one of the previous articles on binary sizes, we discussed how making a class polymorphic by using the virtual keyword affects the binary size. Turning a function into virtual has a substantial ...

What is RTTI? What does it have to do with the size of your executables? Let’s start with answering the first one. RTTI stands for run-time type information. It’s available for every class that h...

C++ is one of the most popular programming languages out there. The latest stats show that it’s now the third-most popular language, surpassing Java for the first time since 2001. Despite it being...

Like so many of us, I’ve been working remotely since the beginning of the pandemic. I was basically sent home from the office on 16th March 2020. I remember that there were probably 3 of us left in...

Constants are great. Types are great. Constants of a specific type are really great. This is why enum classes are just fantastic. Last year, we talked about why we should avoid using boolean funct...

In the previous article of this series on binary sizes, we discussed how special functions’ implementations - or their lack of - influence the size of the generated binary. Our conclusion was that...

These months, I try to better understand how our code affects binary sizes. Last week, we had a look into storage durations and memory allocations. This week, let’s have a look into special member ...

I keep telling that I don’t post negative book reviews. It’s because no matter how much I dislike a book, I can be pretty sure that the author made a huge effort writing it. I have absolutely no re...

Let’s have this piece of code that generates a big binary. #include <array> struct Node { int a = 1, b = 1; }; std::array <Node, 10'000> a; int main() {} If you compile this p...