{"id":1803,"date":"2013-02-01T15:47:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2013\/02\/01\/friday-miscellany-5\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:41:17","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:41:17","slug":"friday-miscellany-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/friday-miscellany-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Miscellany #5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From isocpp.org, <a href=\"http:\/\/isocpp.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/b-tree-containers-from-google\" target=\"_blank\">B-Tree containers<\/a>, a C++ template library that implements <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/B-tree\">B-tree<\/a> containers with an analogous interface to the standard STL map, set, multimap, and multiset containers.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"userContent\">C++ AMP GPU debugging now <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/nativeconcurrency\/archive\/2013\/01\/25\/c-amp-gpu-debugging-now-available-on-windows-7.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">available<\/a> on Windows 7. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"userContent\"><a href=\"http:\/\/herbsutter.com\/category\/c\/gotw\/\" target=\"_blank\">GotW<\/a> archive on Sutter&#8217;s Mill. Test your C++ knowledge by answer questions like &#8220;what are the performance and correctness implications of the following function declaration&#8221;&#8230;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"userContent\">When was the last time you visited <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/60k1461a.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Visual C++<\/a> on MSDN? Now is a good time to revisit and rediscover!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"userContent\">On StackOverflow: <a class=\"question-hyperlink\" href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/9314534\/why-does-changing-0-1f-to-0-slow-down-performance-by-10x\">Why does changing 0.1f to 0 slow down performance by 10x?<\/a>, <a class=\"question-hyperlink\" href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/236129\/splitting-a-string-in-c\">Splitting a string in C++<\/a>, <a class=\"question-hyperlink\" href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/12135518\/is-faster-than\">Is &lt; faster than &lt;=?<\/a>, and <a class=\"question-hyperlink\" href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/28002\/regular-cast-vs-static-cast-vs-dynamic-cast\">Regular cast vs. static_cast vs. dynamic_cast<\/a>. These are top voted questions tagged &#8220;C++&#8221;. There are many, many more interesting questions (and answers) lurking about.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Love\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Microsoft-Visual-Cpp\/222043184527264\" target=\"_blank\">Visual C++<\/a>\u00a0on Facebook!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you have something to share, send it to me (<a href=\"mailto:ebattali@microsoft.com\">ebattali@microsoft.com<\/a>) for potential inclusion in a future miscellany.\nThanks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity. From isocpp.org, B-Tree containers, a C++ template library that implements B-tree containers with an analogous interface to the standard STL map, set, multimap, and multiset containers. C++ AMP GPU debugging now available on Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":264,"featured_media":35994,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-1803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cplusplus","tag-miscellany"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Welcome to another Friday Miscellany, a collection of interesting links from across the internet curated from social media, conversations and curiosity. From isocpp.org, B-Tree containers, a C++ template library that implements B-tree containers with an analogous interface to the standard STL map, set, multimap, and multiset containers. C++ AMP GPU debugging now available on Windows [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/264"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}