CppCon 2017: Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente “Postmodern immutable data structures”

Why HN readers recommended it

HN people point to it for rrb-trees, text editor data structures and bringing Clojure-style persistent structures to C++.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

CppCon

Topic

immutable data structures

Format

talk

Level

advanced

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

13

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• Hey. Check out Juan Pedro Bolivar Puente's talks om value oriented design. He worked on Ableton which is a large application. He specifically speaks to Undo. He describes a much better pattern than the Command Pattern. He also released his source for Value Oriented Data …

• In case anyone hasn't seen it this CppCon talk [VIDEO] talks about rrb-trees and how they're a great data structure for writing a text editor that can handle unlimited sized documents without locking up, and allows for editing while saving and opening, and an easy …

• Not a benchmark but rrb-trees are pretty neat. They give an effective O(1) for all operations. Modern languages like Scala's Vector type is an rrb-tree under the hood: [LINK] For more fun: [VIDEO]