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cpplinks

A categorized list of C++ resources.

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2017-10-31 17:07:08 UTC to 2026-08-27 05:31:34 UTC.

02462017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20172018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 2 submissions, 2 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 7 mentions; 4 submissions, 3 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC422
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC743
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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matt_d·Jan 6, 2025
Right, metamorphic testing in particular (which would be a special case of PBT, with metamorphic relations being properties), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphic_testing, https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/testing.md#pr... One simple example (from the above) is "sin (π − x) = sin x" for the implementation of the sine function not requiring the knowledge of its specific output values. Naturally, instead of the literal equality "=" one can use a more appropriate accuracy specification as in, say, relative ulp (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_in_the_last_place) error bound, cf. https://members.loria.fr/PZimmermann/papers/accuracy.pdf
In Property-Based Testing for the People
matt_d·May 27, 2024
In case this is of interest, here's an attempt at gathering the references, including random blog posts (as well as articles, documentation, papers, software, and talks), on these topics: - assembly & ISA (instruction set architecture): - Arm: https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/assembly.arm.... - RISC-V: https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/assembly.risc... - x86: https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/assembly.x86.... - debugging: https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/debugging.md - debugging: tracing: https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/debugging.tra... - executable and object file formats (ELF, Mach-O, PE); debugging data formats (DWARF, PDB): https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/executables.m... - linking and loading: https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/executables
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.l... - compilers: https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/compilers.md - compilers correctness: https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/compilers.cor...
In Evolution of the ELF object file format
matt_d·Dec 11, 2020
Compilers books: I'd start with "Engineering a Compiler" by Keith Cooper and Linda Torczon. http://craftinginterpreters.com/ is also a pretty great, programming-oriented intro, which may be good to work through alongside. For more on the analysis & compiler optimization side, "SSA-based Compiler Design" (http://ssabook.gforge.inria.fr/latest/; GitHub Mirror: https://github.com/pfalcon/ssabook) is a good follow-up. Further readings: Book recommendations in https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/compilers.md#... as well as program analysis resources (in particular lattice theory, type systems and programming languages theory, related notation): https://gist.github.com/MattPD/00573ee14bf85ccac6bed3c0678dd... Courses: I can recommend the following: https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/compilers.md#... Particularly (in alphab
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etical order--I think these are all great, so including highlights of what I've liked about them): - IU P423/P523: Compilers (Programming Language Implementation) - Jeremy Siek, with the course book "Essentials of Compilation: An Incremental Approach" (pretty interesting approach, with programming language features developed incrementally having a fully working compiler at each step, cf. http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf; implementation language Racket), - KAIST CS420: Compiler Design - Jeehoon Kang (good modern treatment of SSA representation itself, including the use of block arguments, https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/Rationale/Rationale/#block-argume..., as well as SSA-based analysis and optimization; Rust as an implementation language), - UCSD CSE 131: Compiler Construction - Joseph Gibbs Politz, Ranjit Jhala (great lecturers, both Haskell and OCaml edition were interesting; fun extra: one of the Fall 2019 lectures (11/26) has an interesting discussion of the trade-offs between traditional OOP and FP compiler implementation), - UCSD CSE 231: Advanced Compiler Design - Sorin Lerner (after UCSD CSE 131: for more on analysis & optimization--data flow analysis, lattice theory, SSA, optimization; fun extra: the final Winter 2018 lecture highlighted one of my favorite papers, https://pldi15.sigplan.org/details/pldi2015-papers/31/Provab...), - UW CSE CSEP 501: Compilers - Hal Perkins (nice balanced introduction, including x86-64 assembly code generation, with the aforementioned "Engineering a Compiler" used as the course textbook).
In Advanced Compilers: Self-Guided Online Course
matt_d·May 31, 2020
FWIW, there are some interesting tools for microarchitectural performance analysis which are getting closer (although it's a work in progress): https://github.com/MattPD/cpplinks/blob/master/performance.t... One particularly interesting example in this context is OSACA (Open Source Architecture Code Analyzer), https://github.com/RRZE-HPC/osaca The related publications explain the approach used to model and perform critical path analysis relevant for the modern superscalar out-of-order processors: - Automatic Throughput and Critical Path Analysis of x86 and ARM Assembly Kernels (2019): https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.00214 - Cross-Architecture Automatic Critical Path Detection For In-Core Performance Analysis (2020): https://hpc.fau.de/files/2020/02/Masterarbeit_JL-_final.pdf There's also a broader line of research on performance modeling in t
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his vein (some pretty detailed, including microarchitectural details like branch misprediction penalties, ROB capacity, etc.): https://gist.github.com/MattPD/85aad98ee8b135e675d49c571b67f... More on modeling microarchitectural details (chronological order): - Tejas S. Karkhanis and James E. Smith. "A First-Order Superscalar Processor Model." (ISCA 2004) - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.79..... - Stijn Eyerman, Lieven Eeckhout, Tejas Karkhanis, and James E. Smith. "A mechanistic performance model for superscalar out-of-order processors." ACM Trans. Comput. Syst. 27, 2 (2009) - http://www.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/tocs09.pdf - Maximilien B. Breughe, Stijn Eyerman, and Lieven Eeckhout. "Mechanistic analytical modeling of superscalar in-order processor performance." ACM Trans. Architec. Code Optim. 11, 4, Article 50 (2014) - https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/taco2015-breugh.... - "Modeling Superscalar Processor Memory-Level Parallelism", Sam Van den Steen and Lieven Eeckhout, IEEE Computer Architecture Letters (CAL), Vol 17, No 1 (2018) - https://users.elis.ugent.be/~leeckhou/papers/cal2018-MLP.pdf
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