GyoUtils is a simple C++ library used to simplify and speedup development while working in C/C++, with a focus on speed and simplicity.
Programming has become an increasingly complex, annoying and troublesome task. Meanwhile applications are becoming slower and buggier, each year requiring more and more powerful hardware. What in the past could be done by any programmer is now only possible by teams of hundreds or even thousands of people.
We do not agree.
Programming used to be simple. Applications used to be fast. We want things to go back to the way they were.
Since hoping for things to get better is pure fantasy, we decided to create GyoUtils.
We know we won't be able to solve every problem for everyone, different projects will always have different requirements. Instead of trying to provide solutions for everyone, we're only trying to cover the most common scenarios. That's why we're building this, a minimal set of utilities.
We want you to be in control of your software. We know this will bring you in the right direction, because it has already done so for us.
While working on our projects we've found ourselves frequently dissatisfied with the instruments we would be using. They would either be too slow, or too annoying to work with. So we've decided to build them ourselves. This is the collection of those simple tools. They have frequently helped us while developing our projects. We hope they might help you with yours.
For a comprehensive list of everything that Gyoutils offers, each file contains the list of utilities included within it, together with documentation on how to use them. If you don't want to include/use the entire set of utilities you can manually take the ones you need, the code is built to easily do so. For updates on recent changes you should look at CHANGELOG.txt. Here's a high level view of most of the things you can find:
- print, a new simpler alternative to printf, faster than std::cout.
- Deactivatable assert macros with custom print messages.
- A defer macro, similar to defer in go lang, useful for memory and resource management.
- Allocators, a construct found in other languages to simplify memory management and speedup your code substantially.
- Arrays, a simple faster replacement to std::vector, with more capabilities thanks to the Allocators.
- A For macro which will help you during iteration over some of gyoutils structures, more powerful than c++'s range for loop.
- str, a simple faster replacement to std::string.
- StrBuilder, a simple structure to construct your strings, which also can help you when building binary files.
- Simple deactivatable performance counters, for when you want to measure performance at low level, with more resolution than std::chrono.
- A simple profiling structure to help you in profiling nested/recursive functions.
- Some simple benchmarking functionality to help you test functions in a variety of cases.
- Many common math constructs, among them you can find fast versions of vec2, vec3, vec4, mat4 etc.
- Rotors, a replacement for quaternions from a branch of mathematics called Geometric Algebra, making them easier to understand and producing faster code in many cases.
- Many other powerful things.
If you feel some utilities might be missing, improved or replaced altogether, feel free to contact us directly, both here or anywhere else. Here's a non-comprehensive list of locations where you might get in contact with us:
- email: marco.cognolato.98@gmail.com
- Discord: @cogno, @jason55
- X/Twitter: @WeatherCogno, @Jeson55
- Github: Cogno-Marco, Jeson55-wl
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