Writing your own C++ Standard Library implementation...

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10-01-2006
SlyMaelstrom

Writing your own C++ Standard Library implementation...

Have any of your older, more experienced programmers known of anyone who's taken on this task to write their own implementation of the C++ Standard Library? I know many young programmers write compilers, but I assume that means they just write the parsing and converting to assembly parts and they use pre-made implementations to the Standard Library. So has anyone embarked, or known someone who embarks, on this tedious quest? Surely, the real experienced programmers have known some cocky programmers in the past that insisted they could write more efficient implementations... it's just a matter of if they put their money where their mouth is.
10-01-2006
Wraithan

Old co-worker of mine, his roommate was taking PhD level Comp Sci stuff, one of the classes they worked in teams to reimplement the STL as a class. In the end it came out to be better in some spots but overall less efficient.
10-02-2006
joeprogrammer

Let's see....
http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showt...080#post555080
10-02-2006
Mario F.

Do you keep this stuff like in a notebook? Or is it your memory is that good?

Man! *clap* *clap*
10-02-2006
psychopath

Nah, he's just a robot.
10-02-2006
SlyMaelstrom

Prelude was a given... I didn't even expect her to reply. I was asking about others.
10-02-2006
indigo0086

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Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

Prelude was a given... I didn't even expect her to reply. I was asking about others.

is she a she now?
10-02-2006
laserlight

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is she a she now?

Julian Walker? That's confuzzling.
10-02-2006
indigo0086

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Originally Posted by laserlight

Julian Walker? That's confuzzling.

that's ironic
http://www.eternallyconfuzzled.com/
10-02-2006
psychopath

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that's ironic

Really?
10-02-2006
cboard_member

I'm slowly building up my own class & function library but it's nowhere near par with the STL - mainly a messy collection of useful... stuff.
10-02-2006
Mario F.

We had someone here that knew Stroustrup. He'd die to enter this thread.
10-02-2006
twomers

>> We had someone here that knew Stroustrup. He'd die to enter this thread.

Stroustrup??? What did he ever do to a standard C++ library implementation?

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Originally Posted by http://www.research.att.com/~bs/

I designed and implemented the C++ programming language.

Imagine being able to say that!

>> Nah, he's just a robot.
Or perhaps just a spider ... one who beats Google and Yahoo to their game :p
10-02-2006
joeprogrammer

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Originally Posted by Mario F.

Do you keep this stuff like in a notebook? Or is it your memory is that good?

My memory :D.
10-02-2006
Prelude

>Prelude was a given...
Hmm, I think you guys give me too much credit.

>is she a she now?
It depends on whom you ask. I'm sure that not a few people here see me as a dude. ;)

>We had someone here that knew Stroustrup. He'd die to enter this thread.
That would be Dean. He's...indisposed at the moment and won't be joining the discussion. But his "knowing" Stroustrup was limited to email exchanges, and it's common knowledge that Bjarne Stroustrup is good about answering his email.

>Stroustrup??? What did he ever do to a standard C++ library implementation?
Save it from every crap proposal that crossed his desk? :)
10-02-2006
gcn_zelda

Stroustrup sounds like some kind of Dutch pastry.
10-02-2006
Mario F.

> That would be Dean. He's...indisposed at the moment and won't be joining the discussion. But his "knowing" Stroustrup was limited to email exchanges, and it's common knowledge that Bjarne Stroustrup is good about answering his email.

Yes. We pretty much established that he only thought he knew Stroustrup
10-02-2006
indigo0086

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Originally Posted by twomers

>> Nah, he's just a robot.
Or perhaps just a spider ... one who beats Google and Yahoo to their game :p

If you're talking about webcrawler he retired a long time ago.
10-02-2006
SlyMaelstrom

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Originally Posted by Prelude

Hmm, I think you guys give me too much credit.

Heh... I wasn't saying you're a given because you're a great programmer... more so because I said this

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Originally Posted by SlyMaelstrom

some cocky programmers ... that insisted they could write more efficient implementations...

Hehe... I jes' kiddin'. You're a great programmer.
10-02-2006
Prelude

>more so because I said this
>>some cocky programmers ... that insisted they could write more efficient implementations...
That was one of the reasons, sure. :) Of course, I'm realistic enough to know that I was unlikely to be able to do it. While a few parts of my implementations were better, some were worse, and the majority showed a negligable difference. The result proves little more than I'm no better or worse than whoever wrote the code I compared against. It's a bit of a slap in the face seeing as how I have a massive ego. ;)
10-02-2006
pianorain

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Originally Posted by Prelude

It's a bit of a slap in the face seeing as how I have a massive ego. ;)

Considering that it was you against a team of programmers, I'd say you fared well enough.