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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Thanks, Jeremy! I’ve always wanted to get rid of all those random string literals leaking into the binary, while also bubbling up some of the platform/library specific errors without using exceptions (😄). Message formatting was also pretty inconsistent before and long overdue for a proper cleanup…

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Sane C++ Libraries - September 2026 ! 🍂 ✅ Structured errors, optional diagnostics ✅ Unix-domain sockets ✅ External async HTTP transports ✅ Updated agent skills ✅ Async lifetime and cancellation fixes #cpp #cplusplus

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Release 2026-09 · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries

September 2026 Update Blog Post Structured Result errors The biggest change this month is the error model shared by the libraries. Previously, SC::Result stored a pointer to an error message. It wa...

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Sane C++ Libraries - August 2026 ! 🌊 ✅ New Cryptography library - A wrapper for OS API (macOS CommonCrypto, Windows CNG, Linux AF_ALG) + OpenSSL3 on all OS ✅ AsyncStreams using the above Cryptography ✅ Fibers library improvements github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

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Release 2026-08 · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries

August 2026 Update Blog Post Cryptography The biggest addition this month is the new Cryptography library. It provides a small synchronous interface for secure random bytes, AES-GCM, HMAC, HKDF, an...

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Sane C++ Libraries - July 2026 ! 🏖️ ✅New Fibers library - stackful cooperative scheduler ✅New AsyncFibers library - async/io for Fibers Will your agents be more effective at writing callbacks (Async), coroutines (Await) or sync-looking code (Fibers)?😀 github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

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Andre Weissflog @flohofwoe.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Tinkering with Box3D + Sokol + Emscripten :) Box3D is *fun* to work with, very simple and straightforward C API, and very configurable (this is simd + single-threaded). New sokol-sample will be up in one or two days.

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Hot take: software documentation focused on code tutorials will become obsolete. In AI-first development, documentation should teach humans the ideas behind a piece of software, while agent skills take care of code related details. I need to start doing my part on Sane C++ docs

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Have you tried Sane C++ Libraries in a real project, even an experiment or internal tool? If so, which component, project type and platform? Did you evaluate, integrate, ship, or still use it? Links welcome but optional. Reply or DM me. I’d love to learn who it helps today. #cpp #cplusplus

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sane C++ Libraries - June 2026 ! ☀️ ✅Explicit Agentic Programming focus pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... ✅Remove all dependencies from Foundation and Strings ✅Support Windows Long Paths ✅Formalize some of the many Async implicit contracts github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Yes, I agree. I will add plans / specs for new libraries / features and reverse-engineer the Specs and ADR for the manually written code (still the large majority of the project code btw) plus the features added in the last months (for which I have unfortunately already discarded most plans).

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

After more than 6 months of building Sane C++ Libraries entirely with AI coding agents, I've decided to explicitly reposition the project around agent-driven development. The website and project have been renovated to make that vision clear: pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... #cpp #cplusplus

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Sane C++ Libraries - May 2026 ! 🌷 ✅Await: new C++ 20 coroutine library on top of Async ✅Http: router, WebSocket/API/File server ✅SC-package: becomes more declarative ✅Standard C++ headers now allowed by default ✅Async: remove dependency on liburing github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Sane C++ Libraries - April 2026 ! 🌷 SC::Build gets: ✅ self-hosted backend default ✅ cross-compilation (sysroots + llvm-mingw) ✅ Wine / QEMU cross-runs ✅ curl SC-build.sh support for external projects 🧪 first experimental Fil-C++ target github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Sane C++ Libraries - March 2026 ✅ SC::Build native backend ✅ Simplified internal deps (AsyncStreams) ✅ Faster Http parser + chunked encoding ✅ NEW standalone HttpClient lib ✅ FileSystem/File metadata + permissions APIs ✅ Socket multicast + TCP_NODELAY github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

Dependencies diagram for Sane C++ Libraries

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Sane C++ Libraries - February 2026 ✅New SerialPort lib ✅File+Async support named pipes ✅AsyncFileSend (sendfile / TransmitFile) ✅Async uses pidfd (process) / eventfd (wake-up) ✅AGENTS.md ✅Support running SCTest in parallel worktrees github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

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Release 2026-02 · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries

February 2026 Update Blog Post SerialPort and Named Pipes February has been all about connecting low-level I/O pieces end to end. A new cross-platform SerialPort library landed with dedicated tests...

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Probably prompts are to generated code the same way as human written code is to assembly. Reading generated code may be useful in rare cases (like reading assembly today) but most future AI SW builders will happily skip it because it will be too inconvenient, slowing down software creation too much.

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Projects like this one, aiming at lowering complexity for human programmers, in a specific programming language (C++), feel obsolete to me now that AI makes it possible to rewrite entire softwares / systems, swapping languages and/or libraries/frameworks with minimal effort [2/2]

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

In the last months I have been using AI to write 100% of the code I am responsible for. I have been starting to ask so many questions to myself. The first is if and in what form to continue "Sane C++ Libraries" project, currently almost entirely made of "human-written" code [1/2]

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Sane C++ Libraries - January 2026 ✅Http performance + stability (keep-alive, multipart/form-data) ✅AsyncStreams (child buffers + AutoDestroy + async destruction) ✅New AsyncWebServer example ✅New Http Benchmark github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

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Release 2025-12 · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries

December 2025 Update Blog Post Dependencies The bulk of work for this month has been getting rid of the Memory dependency from the Http library. This is incredibly important, because allocation is ...

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Sane C++ Libraries - December 2025 ✅ Http library is now allocations free! ✅ Http API is shaping up (but still draft) ✅ Async got fixes for partial Posix writes ✅ Debug visualizers for Span<T> ✅ Fixes for AsyncStreams, Process, File and Foundation! github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

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Release 2025-12 · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

I have been further restructuring the API making it simple to fix all buffers for a given client/connection. The single array holding memory for all connections can easily be resized at runtime, leveraging well known virtual memory reservation / commit techniques (StableArray).

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Sane C++ Libraries is 2 years old! 🎉🎂 🙏 repost to support the project!❤️ ✅Fast compile time ✅Bloat free ✅Simple readable code ✅Easy to integrate ⛔️No C++ Standard Library ⛔️No third party build dependencies github.com/Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2025-12-23-SaneCpp2Year.html

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I am also updating SCExample to use VirtualMemory, pre-allocating a large slice of address space for a large number of clients. I still need to update SCExample to show how to do the actual runtime resizing of maximum clients with the running web server.

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

I've been pushing a few changes to cleanup and improve the API. When using fixed request / response queues now just 4 buffers are needed instead of 6. github.com/Pagghiu/Sane...

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

After some heavy rework, also Sane C++ Http library is allocation free, by adopting Async Streams everywhere. Creating an async file web server uses only 6 buffers. Not a single byte will be allocated outside of them. SC::Http library is still draft, but it's steadily improving! #cpp #cplusplus

A small code snippet showing the new Async Streams based Http API for Sane C++ Libraries

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Sane C++ Libraries - November 2025 ✅ Http library based on AsyncStreams (still draft) ✅ AsyncStreams read-only / growable buffers support ✅ Async fixes for reentrancy ✅ ToolsBootstrap C port for extra speed ✅ Build improvements / de-hardcoding github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

Dependencies for Sane C++ Libraries for November 2025

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Sane C++ Libraries - October 2025 ✅ Further reduction of internal dependencies ✅ Bring Your Own Containers example (InteropSTL) ✅ New bootstrap for SC::Tools written in C++ ✅ Increased test coverage ✅ Improved CI ✅ Fixes github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

Sane C++ Libraries Dependencies (October 2025)

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Sane C++ Libraries has finally become a BYOC (Bring Your Own Containers) project! We have SC::Strings and SC::Vector<T>, using relative pointers and a "scoped" allocator logic that not everyone may like, but you can now write adapters to use something else

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InteropSTL: Show std::string and std::vector<char> usage with File an… · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries@cb8bca4

…d FileSystem libraries

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Sane C++ Libraries - September 2025 ✅Get rid of many inter-library dependencies ✅Stop accidental dependencies additions in CI ✅Free most libraries from dynamic allocation ✅Transform Build from lib to app ✅Add GDB Pretty Printer ✅Many smaller fixes github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

A drawing showing current state of dependencies between Sane C++ Libraries

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I've been adding to Sane C++ Libraries a GDB debug visualizer (pretty printer in gdb terminology) taking care of strings and containers. In addition to the already existing ones for LLDB and MSVC Debugger (.natvis) I think we should be good now! #cpp #cplusplus

Picture of the pretty printers being registered by the new GDB debug visualizer script for Sane C++ Libraries

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Sane C++ Libraries - August 2025 ✅ Available as Single File Libs ✅ Threading: Semaphore / Barrier / RWLock (→ Stable) ✅ AsyncStreams: IPC Pipe Streams (→ MVP) ✅ Process: Improve reliability ✅ More fixes (see blog post details) pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2025-08-31-SaneCppLibrariesUpdate.html #cpp

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Release 2025-08 · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries

August 2025 Update Blog Post Single File Libraries One of the core principles of this project is to be "Easy to Integrate". I'm always looking for ways to lower the barrier to entry for using these...

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Of course I would only vibe-code Sane C++ Libraries!

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Sane C++ Libraries are now available as amalgamated single-file libs! They can be amalgamated offline or directly in-browser at: pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... Each amalgamation lists dependencies on other amalgamated libs and the LOC of its header vs. implementation sections. Have fun! #cpp

Screenshot of the Sane C++ Libraries Amalgamation tool, allowing to amalgamate libraries directly in browser.

Screenshot of one example amalgamated single file lib (SaneCppFileSystem.h) showing the initial header section with LOC count for header vs. implementation, explicit list of dependencies, copyright etc.

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Sane C++ Libraries - July 2025 Major cleanup month!🧹 ✅ Massive reduction in inter-library dependencies ✅ 7 libraries now allocation-free: - Async - File - FileSystem - FileSystemIterator - FileSystemWatcher - Process - Socket pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2025-07-31-SaneCppLibrariesUpdate.html #cpp

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Release 2025-07 · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries

July 2025 Update Blog Post Automatic Dependency and LOC List of dependencies between libraries and the number of lines of code (LOC) composing them gives an immediate complexity indication. For thi...

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

I have been removing the dependency of the Sane C++ FileSystemWatcher library from the Async one. There's a new mini-lib now called FileSystemWatcherAsync wiring them together explicitly when event loops are needed. It feels so much cleaner now! github.com/Pagghiu/Sane...

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FileSystemWatcher: Remove dependency from Async and File libraries · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries@563c03e

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I wonder if I should capitalize on this by distributing them as isolated single file libraries...

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

I have been removing many inter-dependencies between Sane C++ "Libraries" (mainly Strings/Memory/Containers) The following libraries do not allocate anymore! 🎉 ✅ Async ✅ File ✅ FileSystem ✅ FileSystemWatcher ✅ FileSystemIterator ✅ Process ✅ Socket See: pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... #cpp

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Sane C++ Libraries June 2025: ✅ Async FS Ops - {copy|remove|rename}{file|folder} - {open|close|read|write}file ✅ AsyncUDP {SendTo | ReceiveFrom} ✅ FileSystem {Iterator | Watcher} / Memory dependencies cleanup Blog pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/20... Github github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp #cplusplus

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Release 2025-06 · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries

June 2025 Update Blog Post Async File System Operations A major new feature this month is the unified AsyncFileSystemOperation that provides async file system operations across all platforms. This ...

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

This week I have been adding a few more obvious Async FileSystem Ops: ✅ file/directory rename ✅ file/directory remove pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... #cpp #cplusplus

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Sane C++ Libraries: Async

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Async FileSystem Operation has been added to Sane C++ Libraries for: ✅file open/close ✅file read/write ✅file copy All ops are executed on user supplied thread-pool for IOCP(win)/kqueue(mac)/epoll(linux), with special code path for io_uring(linux)! pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... #cpp #cplusplus

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

I have been adding to Sane C++ Libraries some async primitives needed to send and receive bytes to and from UDP sockets (sendTo and receiveFrom). As always implemented for IOCP, kqueue / epoll and io_uring! Documentation: pagghiu.github.io/SaneCppLibra... Commit: github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... #cpp

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Sane C++ Libraries May 2025: ✅ AsyncSequence - Serial execution of async requests ✅ SC::Async - Smaller memory footprint - Improved cancellation handling deepwiki.com/Pagghiu/Sane... Blog: pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/20... Github: github.com/Pagghiu/Sane... Have a nice weekend! #cpp #cplusplus

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Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries | DeepWiki

The Sane C++ Libraries project provides a comprehensive set of platform abstraction libraries for macOS, Windows, and Linux. This documentation covers the architecture, components, and integration app

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Sane C++ Libraries April 2025 ✅ Process fork ✅ Struct dumping ✅ Async vectorized writes ✅ Tools update ✅ Repo restructuring Blog: pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2025-04-30-SaneCppLibrariesUpdate.html Github: github.com/Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries/releases/tag/release%2F2025%2F04 Have a nice week! #cpp

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Release 2025-04 · Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries

April 2025 Update Blog Post Process SC::Process library allows spawning process across all supported platforms with many features, including I/O redirection and setting environment variables / star...

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

I've added a ProcessFork class to Sane C++ Libraries after discovering that "fork" on Windows can be approximated with RtlCloneUserProcess. There are a ton of limitations but it's useful to serialize a data structure without blocking for IO or copying it for async IO. Nice! #cpp

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

An example of "struct dumping" in Sane C++ Libraries. Anything SC::Segment based (Vector / String / VectorMap etc.) can be dumped and restored by just casting it (well, start_lifetime_as 🤭). I guess it's not rocket science but recent additions make creating this simple and easy. #cpp #cplusplus

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Sane C++ Libraries improvements for March 2025: ✅ Custom Allocators (Segment / Containers) ✅ Relative Pointers Blog: pagghiu.github.io/site/blog/2025-03-31-SaneCppLibrariesUpdate.html Github: github.com/Pagghiu/SaneCppLibraries/releases/tag/release%2F2025%2F03 Have a nice week! #cpp #cplusplus

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Sane Coding Blog - ☔️ Sane C++ March 25

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

This is going to be hard! Fun fact: I was just incidentally thinking right now about using thread_local static to store a memory allocator.

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

While debugging some of the recent container issues for Sane C++ Libraries I have been starting to track the number of allocation and deallocations calls. The test suite by itself is doing 20K allocations and ~50K re-allocations 🫠. Is it MAYBE time to add support for custom allocators? 😅

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Stefano Cristiano @pagghiu.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I have been slapping volatile where I think it makes sense to force the optimizer think twice about making weird assumptions around that code. Hopefully this will not be so bad performance wise. I could maybe replace that offset == 0 conditional with some branchless code to improve things further...

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