Data Structures and Algorithms with the C++ STL

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Advanced Container View Usage

At their core, views are non-owning ranges, meaning they provide a view (hence the name) of other data structures without taking ownership of the underlying data. This makes them incredibly lightweight and versatile. With views, you can perform various operations on data without copying it, ensuring efficient code that maximizes performance and minimizes overhead.

This chapter focuses on the following containers:

• std::span
• std::mdspan

Technical requirements

The code in this chapter can be found on GitHub:

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Data-Structures-and-Algorithms-with-the-CPP-STL

std::span

std::span is a template class introduced in C++20 that provides a view of a contiguous sequence of elements, similar ...