Horizon Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 Registration is now open for CppCon 2024! The conference starts on September 15 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting some upcoming talks that you will be able to attend this year. Here’s another CppCon future talk we hope you will enjoy – and register today for CppCon 2024! Designing a Slimmer Vector of Variants Wednesday, September 18 14:00 - 15:00 MDT by Christopher Fretz Summary of the talk: Heterogeneous containers ("vectors of variants") are an extremely flexible and useful abstraction across many data domains, but std::vector<std::variant<...>> can exhibit extremely bad memory characteristics for mixed types of disparate size, especially if the largest types are relatively uncommon in practice. Variants always have to be at least as large as their largest contained type, and vector implicitly requires all of its members to be the same size, leading to significant bloat in such cases. Motivated by real-world use-cases, this talk explores the design of a bit-packed replacement data structure that can achieve massive improvements in memory usage, and the impacts that these optimizations have on its API. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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