Tips and Tricks

How to Query File Attributes 50x faster on Windows

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November 14, 2024
Imagine you’re developing a tool that needs to scan for file changes across thousands of project files. Retrieving file attributes efficiently becomes critical for such scenarios. In this article, I’ll demonstrate a technique to get file attributes that can achieve a surprising speedup of over 50+ times compared to standard Windows methods. Let’s dive in and explore how we can…
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A Brief Introduction To Clang-Tidy And Its Role in Visual Assist

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January 8, 2021
As a developer, you probably know that parsing C++ source code is very complicated. This is also the reason why there might be fewer good tools for coding assistance than we have in other “lighter” languages. Fortunately,  parsing C++ source code has become much more straightforward over the past decade, mainly because of the Clang/LLVM infrastructure. Clang not only introduced a new…
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