Common Utilities and Helpers

Author

Timo Bingmann (2013)

A lots of basic utility classes and helper functions have accumulated in STXXL. Try are usually fundamental enough to be also used in an application program. Before implementing a common software utility, please check the list below; it might already exist in STXXL:

• I/O statistics and performance counter
• random number generators
• timestamp and timer function
• a non-growing, non-initializing simple_vector
• reference counted (shared) objects via counting_ptr
• command line parser
• synchronization primitives for multi-threading
• logging macros
• macros for checking assertions
• macros for throwing exceptions
• signed and unsigned integer types
• calculating log_2(x)
• miscellaneous macros
• miscellaneous functions