Category Archives: C++

Implementing the generic IEnumerable interface

Posted on July 25, 2005 by Ken

Say you want to implement a class that implements the IEnumerable interface in C#. Then you have two choices, either to implement the old-style non-generic IEnumerable interface or you can implements the generic IEnumerable<T> interface. Given those choices we of … Continue reading →

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GADTs in C++

Posted on March 3, 2005 by Ken

My good friends Claudio Russo and Andrew Kennedy have been kind enough to send me a draft paper about Generalized Algebraic Data Types (GADTs) and Object-Oriented Programming. GADTs generalize the datatypes of ML and Haskell by permitting constructors to produce … Continue reading →

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Now with Java

Posted on September 1, 2004 by Ken

Following up on the benchmark from yesterday, I’ve produced a Java version of the queens benchmark (queens.java). Below is the updated graph. I have a suspision that the reason Mono and Java is performing so bad is not only due … Continue reading →

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A hand full of Queens

Posted on August 31, 2004 by Ken

Or: SML/Moscow ML is faster than C++/GCC Inspired by a remark by Peter about the abysmal performance of exceptions on the .NET platform. I decided to check it for myself with a micro-benchmark. I also decided to check the performance … Continue reading →

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