Hi Peter, On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 7:55 PM, Peter S. Shenkin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I read your posting on Medium, and would be curious to hear which of > the many language features in c++11/14 you find most appealing. Is it that > you hope to rewrite things using these features, or, at the other extreme, > just want to make sure that the code remains compatible with new language > standards? > The standards committee has been very careful and the changes they made do not, to the best of my knowledge, break backwards compatibility (note: I'm just talking about being able to compile code and have it work, binary compatibility could be a different story, but that's less important). A big component of this is just being able to learn and use the new features in the language. It's a professional development thing for anyone working with the RDKit C++ code. Some of the changes (auto variables, range-based for loops, non-member begin() and end()) will help simplify the code, which is a big win. Others (unique pointers) will help with making things more explicit and, I hope, result in some speed improvements. And, the great unknown, move semantics could result in a nice performance boost. But that we'll have to see. -greg
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