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In Part I we discussed our overall strategy for object streaming, which needs to be handled carefully to support deserializing objects in-place in memory. We introduced the streaming operator, how to stream simple types such as arithmetic types, and ...
Introduction You often need to serialize (save) C++ objects to files for storage, and deserialize (load) them later on a subsequent run of a program. In video games, these data can be resource assets such as textures and meshes, gameplay information ...
In Part I of this blog series, we discussed how to write a lock-free queue for the case of a single producer thread and a single consumer thread (SPSC). This is handy when sending messages between dedicated threads, but we often want to have multiple...
The queue is one of the fundamental data structures of multithreaded programming. It is often used for message-passing between systems and/or threads, commonly for event handling, task pools, or other types of work queues. In multithreaded environmen...
In C++, you often need a container where the objects will remain at a fixed location in memory so that you can easily refer to them individually. For example, our game could contain hundreds of thousands of Entity's and Component's, and our game syst...
For logging and debugging it can be extremely useful to get a string for the name of a type in C++. However, the standard library doesn't supply a great way of doing that. We don't want to use the standard typeid operator, std::type_info, or std::typ...
In Part I of this blog series, we covered how to convert our type name to a string, how to safely store type-erased objects, and how to handle trivial types (AnyTrivial). In Part II we covered how to manage type-erased storage of general types (AnyOb...
In Part I of this blog series, we covered how to get a string with our type name, how to safely store type-erased objects, and how to handle trivial types. Now we'll cover how to handle type-erased storage of general types (AnyObject): ones whose cop...
Type erasure is where the type of an object is hidden so that the object can be utilized in a type-independent manner. Type erasure is extremely useful in several scenarios, including heterogeneous containers (containers that store objects of differe...
