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emptycrate is a personal blog at articles.emptycrate.com about programming. Since 2016, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “C++ Weekly Ep8, Name Demangling”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in a discussion of C++ performance, with the commenter citing it to argue that templates remove indirection and do not cause code bloat. The comment does not judge the post's quality.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- C++ Weekly Ep8, Name Demangling2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-04-26
What Hacker News says?
Your point is a decade out of date. Templates are a prime mechanism for achieving efficiency in C++ code and do not produce code-bloat like those early compilers. http://articles.emptycrate.com/2008/05/06/nobody_understands... When templates are used to remove indirection, very good efficiency results with zero-overhead, which is a major reason why C++ sort can be quicker than qsort. ( http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/c…
Comment linking /2008/05/06/nobody_understands_c_part_5_template_code_bloat.html
on “Designing a Lock-free, Wait-free Hash Map”Submitted Stop Using Std::endl [video] as a story · 39 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Weekly – Ep 15 Using `std::bind` as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Weekly – Ep 14 Standard Library Gems: `next` and `exchange` as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Weekly – Ep9 Std::future Quick-Start as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Emptycrate.com: Nobody Understands C++: Intro as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Fibonacci: You're Doing It Wrong [video] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Weekly – Ep12 C++17's std::any as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Weekly – Ep11 Std::future Part 2 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Folds (ish) in C++11 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Weekly Ep8, Name Demangling as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Weekly – Ep10 Variadic Expansion Wrap-Up as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted C++ Weekly – Ep8 C++ Name Demangling as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted EmptyCrate.com: C++ Weekly with Jason Turner – Ep6 Intro to Variadic Templates as a story · 1 points
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