It is known that code bloat significantly increases build times in C++. The question is: how can we quantify code bloat? How can we see things which are compiled too many times or the things which generate too much object code? How can we know which places would benefit most from improvement efforts?

This article is about an excellent tool called SymbolSort, which produces useful code bloat statistics in a project of any size. In particular, the article describes a few improvements which I have implemented recently to provide more useful analysis.

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The C++ language is known for its slow build times. This problem is not present in the world of pure C, which might give a hint that the problem is caused by some C++ feature. In fact, it is caused by bad habit or writing code in headers, severely worsened by C++ templates and inspired by STL itself.

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This article is a sort of report about blog migration.

On wordpress.com

Initially, I started this blog on wordpress.com. I chose wordpress.com thinking that I only need a small personal blog and I can easily live without any advanced features. I was pretty sure that I will post only technical articles, and do so quite rarely, so I searched for a free solution and wordpress.com was a good fit. And the experience was quite good in general: I did not have to configure anything, just choose a classic theme and go on writing.

A problem which I noticed rather quickly is that the width of the text in my blog was way too small. The amount of text fitting into one line was small, and it was especially ugly for source code fragments. When I wanted to post a piece of code from somewhere, I had to add split lines into pieces, so that the whole code fits and no scroll bar appears.

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