The Art of C++ / Tuple is a C++11 header-only proof-of-concept implementation of std::tuple.

Why another implementation of std::tuple? To provide a proof-of-concept that, when avoiding recursion, code can benefit in significant ways. I prepared a talk about it, including some benchmarks.

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TL;DR: GCC 5 on Linux with libstdc++'s std::tuple requires 19.6s and an instantiation depth of at least 3.719 to compile an example generating a tuple with 265 elements via std::tuple_cat. tao::tuple requires 1.2s and an instantiation depth of 26 on the same system.

Apple LLVM 7.0 (~Clang 3.7) with libc++'s std::tuple requires 70s and an instantiation depth of 514 to compile the example. tao::tuple requires 1.7s and an instantiation depth of 15 on the same system. This case does not change std::integer_sequence or std::make_integer_sequence, all improvements are coming from all the other improvements from avoiding recursion.

tao::tuple supports CUDA.

• Requires C++11 or newer.
• Tested with GCC 4.8+, Clang 3.4+, and Visual Studio 2017.

You can download and install The Art of C++ / Tuple using the Conan package manager:

conan install taocpp-tuple/1.0.0@

The taocpp-tuple package in conan is kept up to date by Conan team members and community contributors. If the version is out-of-date, please create an issue or pull request on the Conan Center Index repository.

Released 2018-08-01

• Initial release.

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