Articles by Bartlomiej Filipek (Articles: 11, Technical Blogs: 20, Tip/Tricks: 3)

Articles: 11, Technical Blogs: 20, Tip/Tricks: 3

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General Programming
Algorithms	The Amazing Performance of C++17 Parallel Algorithms, is it Possible? 25 Nov 2018 Updated: 25 Nov 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,553 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What performance can we get from C++17 parallel algorithms?
Performance	Simple Performance Timer 11 Jan 2016 Updated: 11 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.21/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.95 Licence: CPOL Views: 21,382 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 382 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Description of a simple performance timer that can be used to profile cpp code in your app
	Flexible Particle System - Updaters 8 Jun 2014 Updated: 8 Jun 2014 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.40 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,071 Bookmarked: 15 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Flexible Particle System - Updaters
Threads	The C++ Standard Library, 2nd 27 Apr 2014 Updated: 27 Apr 2014 Rating: 4.47/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.04 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,601 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. This book is a must-have resource for any C++ developer!
High Performance Computing
GPU	Learning Modern OpenGL 13 May 2014 Updated: 20 Sep 2015 Rating: 4.95/5 Votes: 95 Popularity: 9.71 Licence: CPOL Views: 272,822 Bookmarked: 206 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A little guide about modern OpenGL and why it gives us so much value.
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DirectX	Direct3D Rendering Cookbook 16 Apr 2014 Updated: 28 Apr 2014 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 3.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,862 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Short review of a very interesting book about DirectX 11 using C#
OpenGL	OpenGL Development Cookbook 23 Sep 2013 Updated: 28 Apr 2014 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.86 Licence: CPOL Views: 29,781 Bookmarked: 17 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Review of a very interesting book about Modern OpenGL Application Development.
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C++11	Smart Pointers Gotchas 19 Feb 2013 Updated: 27 Aug 2014 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 22 Popularity: 6.48 Licence: CPOL Views: 37,602 Bookmarked: 53 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Several issues related to smart pointers that are worth knowing.
	How a weak_ptr Might Prevent Full Memory Cleanup of Managed Object 30 Jan 2018 Updated: 30 Jan 2018 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 4.52 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,160 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. It appears that in some cases memory allocated for the object controlled by smart_ptr might not be released until all weak pointers are also ‘dead’... let's see why
	Top 5 Beautiful C++ std Algorithms Examples 16 Dec 2014 Updated: 16 Dec 2014 Rating: 4.86/5 Votes: 58 Popularity: 8.57 Licence: CPOL Views: 128,811 Bookmarked: 127 Downloaded: 625 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Several examples of beautiful code made up of algorithms from the C++ standard library. Heavily uses modern C++.
C++14	Notes on C++ SFINAE 29 Feb 2016 Updated: 29 Feb 2016 Rating: 4.38/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 3.06 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,350 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 114 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In the article I cover SFINAE, a quite complex paradigm from C++ template programming area. What is this thing? Where can you use it? Let's also look how C++14/17 can help in writing such expressions.

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Debugging	PDB Was Not Found - Linker Warning [Technical Blog] 22 Apr 2015 Updated: 22 Apr 2015 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.39 Licence: CPOL Views: 15,081 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. PDB Was Not Found - Linker Warning
Optimization	C++ Include test: full matrix [Technical Blog] 12 Apr 2013 Updated: 17 Apr 2013 Rating: 4.50/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.35 Licence: CPOL Views: 12,421 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Experiments about compilation times and file structure in C++, using GCC, MinGW, Visual Studio.
Performance	Vector of Objects vs Vector of Pointers [Technical Blog] 1 Jun 2014 Updated: 2 Jun 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.77 Licence: CPOL Views: 20,463 Bookmarked: 18 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How memory access patterns can influence performance of your code
	Flexible Particle System - The Container 2 [Technical Blog] 15 May 2014 Updated: 16 May 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 2 Popularity: 1.51 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,160 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Description of the implementation of my particle container
High Performance Computing
GPU	Persistent Mapped Buffers in OpenGL [Technical Blog] 3 Feb 2015 Updated: 3 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.45/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.46 Licence: CPOL Views: 30,051 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Summary of techniques to stream data from CPU to GPU in OpenGL with focusing on new method called persistent mapped buffers.
Vectorization	Flexible Particle System - Tools Optimization [Technical Blog] 16 Sep 2014 Updated: 16 Sep 2014 Rating: 4.75/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 2.27 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,600 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. In this post, I will test several compiler options and switches that could make the particle system run faster.
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OpenGL	Flexible Particle System - Code Optimization [Technical Blog] 6 Oct 2014 Updated: 6 Oct 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,910 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Several code changes that made my particle system faster: SIMD, random number generator, pointer aliasing, memory alignment
	glGenerateMipmap Plus SOIL library, OpenGL [Technical Blog] 1 Oct 2013 Updated: 1 Oct 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,190 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. glGenerateMipmap Plus SOIL library
	Flexible Particle System - OpenGL Renderer [Technical Blog] 9 Jul 2014 Updated: 9 Jul 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 22,653 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Description about my simple OpenGL renderer for the particle system
	Flexible Particle System - Start [Technical Blog] 14 Apr 2014 Updated: 14 Apr 2014 Rating: 4.83/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.91 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,381 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Flexible Particle System - Start
	Flexible Particle System - The Container [Technical Blog] 15 Apr 2014 Updated: 15 Apr 2014 Rating: 4.67/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.81 Licence: CPOL Views: 6,890 Bookmarked: 8 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Flexible Particle System - The Container
	Flexible particle system - How to start with Software Optimization [Technical Blog] 2 Aug 2014 Updated: 2 Aug 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 9,400 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to start optimizing the particle system code.
	Flexible Particle System - Emitter and Generators [Technical Blog] 15 May 2014 Updated: 16 May 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.89 Licence: CPOL Views: 10,360 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Description of my emitter and generator module for particle system
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C	#Include little toolkit [Technical Blog] 13 Mar 2013 Updated: 14 Mar 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.23 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,263 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Include Guards, Pragma Once, Predeclarations and other hints that might be useful when dealing with includes.
C++	Why Is It Building So Long? [Technical Blog] 19 Feb 2013 Updated: 28 Mar 2013 Rating: 4.93/5 Votes: 7 Popularity: 4.17 Licence: CPOL Views: 16,090 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Introduction to insulation method, for improving physical design of the code.
	C++ Status at the end of 2015 [Technical Blog] 2 Jan 2016 Updated: 3 Jan 2016 Rating: 4.76/5 Votes: 16 Popularity: 5.74 Licence: CPOL Views: 32,476 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Maybe I’ll be boring with this note, but again I need to write that this was another good year for C++! Read my report from 2015.
	Refactoring with C++17 std::optional [Technical Blog] 9 May 2018 Updated: 9 May 2018 Rating: 4.71/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 2.84 Licence: CPOL Views: 4,292 Bookmarked: 7 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. . There are many situations where you need to express that something is “optional” - an object that might contain a value or not. You have several options to implement such case, but with C++17 there’s probably the most helpful way: std::optional..
	Forward Declaration and a Pointer [Technical Blog] 4 Mar 2013 Updated: 4 Mar 2013 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: CPOL Views: 14,670 Bookmarked: 3 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Why forward declaration can cause some troubles with (smart) pointers.
C++11	Non Static Data Members Initialization [Technical Blog] 22 Feb 2015 Updated: 22 Feb 2015 Rating: 4.63/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 4.42 Licence: CPOL Views: 11,543 Bookmarked: 2 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. My short summary for non static data members initialization from modern C++. A very useful feature.
C++14	My Top 5 C++ Proposals for October 2014 [Technical Blog] 25 Oct 2014 Updated: 25 Oct 2014 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 4 Popularity: 3.01 Licence: CPOL Views: 13,041 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A list of my top 5 interesting C++ proposals.for pre-Urbana mailing. Unified Syntax Call, Coroutines, array_view ranges and modules.

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Architecture	Applying the Strategy Pattern [Tip/Trick] 23 Sep 2015 Updated: 23 Sep 2015 Rating: 4.74/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 4.94 Licence: CPOL Views: 17,610 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 92 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to apply the strategy pattern to a problem while designing a class hierarchy. What are the pros and cons of this approach?
Debugging	Visual Studio Slow Debugging and _NO_DEBUG_HEAP [Tip/Trick] 23 Sep 2015 Updated: 23 Sep 2015 Rating: 4.20/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 3.79 Licence: CPOL Views: 31,832 Bookmarked: 10 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. By default, Visual Studio (up to VS 2013) uses additional debug heap that slows down applications, even in Release mode. Read what you can do about this.
Threads	Simple Introduction to std::future and std::async [Tip/Trick] 17 Jan 2014 Updated: 14 Oct 2014 Rating: 4.82/5 Votes: 15 Popularity: 5.66 Licence: CPOL Views: 40,052 Bookmarked: 24 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Simple introduction to std::future and std::async and why they can be useful.

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Bartlomiej Filipek

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Poland

Software developer interested in creating great code and passionate about teaching.

Author of C++17 In Detail - a book that will teach you the latest features of C++17!

I have around 11 years of professional experience in C++/Windows/Visual Studio programming. Plus other technologies like: OpenGL, game development, performance optimization.

In 2018 I was awarded by Microsoft as MVP, Developer Technologies.

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Articles by Bartlomiej Filipek (Articles: 11, Technical Blogs: 20, Tip/Tricks: 3)

Articles: 11, Technical Blogs: 20, Tip/Tricks: 3

Average article rating: 4.71

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