Benjamin Summerton joins Timur and Phil. Ben talks to us about what led him to benchmark the impact of the final and noexcept keywords, how to interpret his results, and the project that inspired him to do so in the first place.

Show Notes News * Boost 1.86 released * RealtimeSanitizer - new real-time safety testing tool for C and C++ projects that comes with Clang 20 * "Honey, I shrunk {fmt}: bringing binary size to 14k and ditching the C++ runtime"

Links * Previous episodes covering std lib implementations:

+ Stephan T. Lavavej (MSVC)
+ Stephan T. Lavavej and Sy Brand (MSVC)
+ Billy O'Neil (MSVC)
+ Marshall Clow (libc++)
+ Eric Fiselier (libc++)

• "noexcept affects libstdc++’s unordered_set" - Arthur O'Dwyer
• Episode with Martin Hořeňovský, discussing non-portal random distribution
• Episode with Frances Buontempo, also mentioning random numbers and the portable distribution issue
• "Free Your Functions" (video) - Klaus Iglberger (timed link to the bit that talks about performance)
• Ben's PSRayTracing repo