https://www.pistack.xyz/tags/systems-programming/ Recent content in Systems-Programming on Pi Stack Hugo en-us Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-22-high-performance-data-structure-libraries-boost-container-abseil-eastl-plf-colony/ Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.pistack.xyz/posts/2026-06-22-high-performance-data-structure-libraries-boost-container-abseil-eastl-plf-colony/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>The C++ Standard Library provides solid general-purpose containers, but production systems often demand more: flat maps that eliminate pointer chasing, colony containers that preserve pointer stability through erasures, small-size-optimized strings, and hash tables tuned for specific access patterns. Specialized container libraries fill these gaps with implementations that outperform <code>std::vector</code>, <code>std::unordered_map</code>, and <code>std::string</code> in targeted scenarios.</p>