GoingDeep: C9 Lectures: Stephan T. Lavavej - Standard Template Library (STL), 9 of n

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Welcome to another installment of C9 Lectures covering the powerful general C++ library, STL. Joining us once again is the great Stephan T. Lavavej, Microsoft's keeper of the STL cloth (this means he manages the partnership between the owners of STL (dinkumware) and Microsoft, including, of cours.

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Welcome to another installment of C9 Lectures covering the powerful general C++ library, STL. Joining us once again is the great Stephan T. Lavavej, Microsoft's keeper of the STL cloth (this means he manages the partnership between the owners of STL (dinkumware) and Microsoft, including, of course, bug fixes and enhancements to the STL that ships as part of Visual C++). Simply, Stephan is a C++ library developer.

As is Stephan's nature, he elaborates on technical details in very substantive way. The Standard Template Library, orSTL, is a C++ library of container classes, algorithms, and iterators. STL provides many fundamental algorithms and data structures. Furthermore, the STL is a general-purpose library: its components are heavily parameterized, such that almost every component in the STL is a template.

In part 9, Stephan introduces us to rvalue references, a C++0x language feature, which enables two different things: move semantics and perfect forwarding. It's all about performance, brothers and sisters!

See the other parts of this lecture series:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6
Part 7
Part 8

Enjoy! Learn!

Books mentioned by Stephen:

The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial And Reference by Nicolai M. Josuttis
Effective STL by Scott Meyers

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