Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 14:30:12 -0700
On Wednesday, 29 October 2025 09:40:13 Pacific Daylight Time Jason McKesson via
Std-Proposals wrote:
> Is anyone spending any real time looking at the implementation of
> these hyper-low-level things? Or do the vast majority of C++ users
> just use the tools they're given?
Yes and quite a few them are in this mailing list and/or in the Standards
team. The fact is that those people are who make things fast so that everyone
else doesn't have to worry about details.
This is a case of when the functionality does not need to be easy, intuitive
or even discoverable. There are a few dozen people at most who will need it.
But it needs to exist.
Std-Proposals wrote:
> Is anyone spending any real time looking at the implementation of
> these hyper-low-level things? Or do the vast majority of C++ users
> just use the tools they're given?
Yes and quite a few them are in this mailing list and/or in the Standards
team. The fact is that those people are who make things fast so that everyone
else doesn't have to worry about details.
This is a case of when the functionality does not need to be easy, intuitive
or even discoverable. There are a few dozen people at most who will need it.
But it needs to exist.
-- Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org Principal Engineer - Intel Data Center - Platform & Sys. Eng.
Received on 2025-10-29 21:30:14