Commit 48804e8f by FritzFlorian

Add notes on why anonymous, generic lambda wrappers are not possible in our context.

parent 6802681d
......@@ -4,6 +4,29 @@ A collection of stuff that we noticed during development.
Useful later on two write a project report and to go back
in time to find out why certain decisions where made.
## 11.04.2019 - Lambda Pointer Abstraction
The question is if we could use a pointer to a lambda without
needing templating (for the type of the lambda) at the place that
we use it.
We looked into different techniques to achieve this:
- Using std::function<...>
- Using custom wrappers
std::function uses dynamic memory, thus ruling it out.
All methods that we can think of involve storing a pointer
to the lambda and then calling on it later on.
This works well enough with a simple wrapper, but has one
major downside: It involves virtual function calls,
making it impossible to inline the lambda.
This property broke the technique for us in most places,
as inlining is crucial, especially in small functions like loop
iterations. See `invoke_parallel_impl.h` for an example where we
did this (wrapper with virtual function call), but we only did it there,
as the generic `fork_join_sub_task` requires the virtual call anyway,
thus making us not loose ANY performance with this technique.
## 11.04.2019 - Notes on C++ Templating
After working more with templating and talking to mike,
......
Markdown is supported
0% or
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Finish editing this message first!
Please register or sign in to comment