I have already written a couple of times about dynamic_cast. I claimed that if you can avoid using it and RTTI, you can get a smaller binary. I also claimed that without dynamic_cast your code will...

A few months ago, I wrote a review on Template Metaprogramming with C++ by Marius Bancila where I mentioned not only that it’s a great book, but also that there are some topics which I’ll cover mo...

Recently, in the binary sizes series, we discussed how run-time type information affects RTTI. I also mentioned that in my opinion the lack of RTTI leads to better practices and you’ll end up with ...

I recently read a post on social media about modern people who are always chasing themselves as they are always late. It also reminded me of what one of my first bosses told me. According to the me...

In this post, I want to share some struggles I had twice during the last few months. For one of my examples, I wanted to initialize a std::vector with std::unique_ptr. It didn’t compile and I had l...

So why templates are interesting for our series on binary sizes? It’s because as mentioned, they do not represent callable code. They represent templates to generate callable code. The more you gen...

In this series of articles about binary sizes, we already talked about the default keyword and said that the default keyword will make a special function noexcept, whenever it can. What is noexcep...

Many say that life is about compromises. They are right. But when can we find a compromise? What are the driving forces when two people don’t want the same thing and a decision is to be made? Wha...

In the previous article on binary sizes, we discussed how the decorator pattern’s classic and modern implementation fares in terms of binary size. We saw that the modern implementation had a smalle...

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...