How Templates Enable High-Performance Scientific Computing in C++

Authors:
Scott Haney;James Crotinger
Affiliations:
-;-
Venue:
Computing in Science and Engineering
Year:
1999

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Abstract

The C++ programming language has a powerful template facility that enables the development of flexible software without incurring a large abstraction penalty. Templates let programmers tell the compiler how to create classes and functions parametrized in terms of other types and constants. Programmers often use templates to implement type-safe generic containers that hold elements of a particular type, or generic functions that can, for example, sort the elements in an arbitrary generic container. Templates are one of the most complex C++ language features. For this reason, they were deliberately left out of the Java programming language. Nevertheless, templates are the fundamental enabling technology that supports construction of maintainable, highly abstract, high-performance scientific codes in C++.