Using Modern C++ to Revive an Old Design
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Revisits the 1984 Unix STREAMS design and shows how modern C++ features and metaprogramming can recreate its small, modular, protocol‑independent components while avoiding the original’s runtime costs. Demonstrates concrete techniques for building easily testable, pluggable modules and uses compile‑time methods to reduce or eliminate per‑message inspection overhead that harmed traditional STREAMS performance.
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