The Bizarreness of Optimization

Background: consider the hashtable with closed addressing/separate chaining: Typically, we can have two different schemes to link through all the nodes. One is to link the last node of the current bucket to the first node of the next non-empty bucket. See the above picture and imagine taht there are links among these buckets. Another …

How To Implement A Real Emplace Routine

Above is a piece of code that attempts to implement the emplace family routines. One can insert something like const value_type& (value_type&&) val or variadic arguments Args&&… args, both of which then can be handled by the insert_leaf_at subroutine Of course, this simple implementation is flawed as it requires an extra move operation. In order …

A Running Example

I made a test in Dev-C++ (version 5.7.1, with MinGW GCC 4.8.1 32-bit), and in debug mode, via the CPU Window it produced the following instructions: procedure main: subroutine add: Following these instructions, I drew a simple diagram (partial, incomplete): The arguments for printf were left out in this diagram for simplicity, but it is …

Getting older, huh?

Getting older, huh? I have experienced some things that were extraordinarily meaningful in the year 2020: I started to write academic papers in English, pursuing perfectly-typeset articles and I have done some results that I’m now still very proud of. I started to browse English websites every day, hankering for an ideal & beautiful country …