Hello everyone,

We had a special guest speaker on Tuesday, Feb 20th 2024. Andreas Fertig!

This is not Andreas’ first appearance in our Meetup and I was super happy to host him again!

This session went over an interesting and extremely useful information – Runtime vs Compile time polymorphism.

The event page can be found here.

Recording, as usual can be found in the San Diego C++ Meetup Youtube channel.

Exploring Polymorphism in C++: Run-time vs. Compile-time by Andreas Fertig – San Diego C++ meetup

Presentation material can be found in our dropbox location (join the meetup to gain access).

Summary of the material discussed:

1. Cost of runtime polymorphism.
2. CRTP as an alternative, lower runtime cost alternative.
3. Policy based design.
4. Example of policy – std::unique_ptr and the deleter policy.
5. std::sort and the sorting policy.
6. Another example of the Policy based idiom, checked array boundaries with multiple types of handling errors – all with Policy design.

That’s it for this month!

Next time, it’d be our #60 session. Yes! 5 years of San Diego C++ Meetup. We have over 1650 members. We started off on March 2019, with around 70 members!

Thanks for reading,