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• An Introduction to Garbage Collection, Part I

  http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/cpp_report/an_introduction_to_garbage_collection_part_i.html
  Presents an introduction to garbage collection, presenting the subject in enough detail to show the various tradeoffs and advantages between various techniques and what goes on under the hood in a typical garbage collector.

• An Introduction to XML Data Binding in C++

  http://www.artima.com/cppsource/xml_data_binding.html
  This article looks at XML Data Binding at a new alternative to automate much of the task of processing XML data by presenting the information stored in XML as a statically-typed, vocabulary-specific object model. (Boris Kolpackov)

• C++ in the Real World

  http://www.cantrip.org/realworld.html
  This article explores the strengths of C++, and how to exploit them in projects.

• C++ Internals

  http://www.avabodh.com/cxxin/cxx.html
  Discusses implementation details like multiple inheritance, virtual functions and exception handling.

• C++ Optimizations

  http://www.custard.org/%7Eandrew/optimize.php
  List of C++ source code optimizations that can give big returns, especially when used in tight loops. By Andrew S. Winter.

• C++0x Feature Support in GCC 4.5

  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-gcc/index.html
  This article focuses on a subset of several C++0x features that GCC version 4.5 supports, including static assertions, initializer lists, type narrowing, newer semantics of the auto keyword, lambda functions, and variadic templates.

• C++: Beyond The Standard Library

  http://www.cprogrammingtrends.com/cbeyond-the-standard-library-2003-07
  Takes a look at Blitz++, MTL (Matrix Template Library), ACE, Loki and Boost.

• Constant Objects and Constant Expressions

  http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/programming-pointers/4023888/Constant-Objects-and-Constant-Expressions
  Explains why constant objects are not as useful as some people would like them to be.

• Contracts: From Analysis to C++ Implementation

  http://fodok.uni-linz.ac.at/JKUFODOK/ENGLISH/RU_246000-9104/PUB_1999/PUB_32893.html
  Describes a set of techniques and tools (an environment) facilitating prototyping of, providing general mechanisms for, object-oriented architectures based on the idea of assertion checking and Design by Contract (DbC) in C++.

• Create Movie from HBitmap

  http://gopalakrishna.palem.in/createmovie.html
  Describes creating AVI/WMV/QuickTime movies from sequences of bitmaps with source code examples.

• Creating Truly Maintainable Class Factories

  http://www.drdobbs.com/creating-truly-maintainable-class-factor/184401309
  Presents a solution that is easily extensible and maintainable; what's more, it is particularly well suited to creating objects from XML data.

• Dynamic C++ Classes

  http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix98/full_papers/hjalmtysson/hjalmtysson.pdf
  Describes a lightweight mechanism to update code in a running program. (Gísli Hjálmtýsson, Robert Gray)

• Enumeration Constants vs. Constant Objects

  http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/programming-pointers/4023879/Enumeration-Constants-vs-Constant-Objects
  Presents insights on choosing between symbolic constants as either enumeration constants or constant objects.

• Functional Style in C++

  http://okmij.org/ftp/cpp-digest/Functional-Cpp.html
  Discusses closures, late binding, and lambda abstractions.

• Herb Sutter - Publications

  http://www.gotw.ca/publications/
  Over 80 in-depth articles about object-oriented software development and C++ design and programming have been published in C/C++ Users Journal, C++ Report, Dr. Dobb's Journal, Java Report, Visual C++ Developer's Journal, and other magazines.

• Introducing the Catenator

  http://www.artima.com/cppsource/catenator.html
  This article introduces a very sophisticated and useful data structure for efficient string processing, while at the same time revealing some interesting features of C++. (Adam Sanitt)

• Optimizing Software in C++

  http://www.agner.org/optimize/optimizing_cpp.pdf
  An optimization manual for advanced C++ programmers on Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. Topics include: the choice of platform and operating system, choice of compiler and framework, finding performance bottlenecks, the efficiency of different C++ constructs, multi-kernel systems, parallelization with vector operations, CPU dispatching and efficient container class templates.

• Publications by Bjarne Stroustrup

  http://www.stroustrup.com/papers.html
  Reasonably complete list of Bjarne's publications.

• Simpler Multithreading in C++0x

  http://www.devx.com/SpecialReports/Article/38883
  The new standard will support multithreading, with a new thread library. This article explains how this will improve porting code, and reduce the number of APIs and syntaxes used.

• Symbolic Constants

  http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/programming-pointers/4023858/Symbolic-Constants
  Shows all choices for defining symbolic constants.

• The Anatomy of the Assignment Operator

  http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/cpp_report/the_anatomy_of_the_assignment_operator.html
  In depth discussion of writing solid assignment operators. Explains exception safety and memory management issues.

• The Assignment Operator Revisited

  http://www.icu-project.org/docs/papers/cpp_report/the_assignment_operator_revisited.html
  Looks at how difficult it is to copy state from one object to another. (Richard Gillam)

• The Design and Implementation of SPECS: An Alternative C++ Syntax

  http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~damian/papers/PDF/SPECS.pdf
  By B.M. Werther and D.M. Conway, Dept. Computer Science, Monash University, Melbourne.

• The Design of C++0x

  http://www.drdobbs.com/the-design-of-c0x/184401958
  Bjarne Stroustrup provides insights on what will likely be added or changed in the upcoming version of the C++ standard.

• The Miseducation of C++

  http://www.two-sdg.demon.co.uk/curbralan/papers/TheMiseducationOfC++.pdf
  Modern C++ is a more expressive, simpler language than C, and a language in its own right, so why do so many people insist on teaching it historically? Kevlin Henney appeals for a reform of the C++ education system.

• What is Koenig Lookup?

  http://h21007.www2.hp.com/portal/site/dspp/menuitem.863c3e4cbcdc3f3515b49c108973a801/?ciid=a908852bcbe02110852bcbe02110275d6e10RCRD
  A definition of argument-dependent name lookup with examples for application with HP aC++.

 

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