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Reputation: 3781

How to use c++ templates to add pieces of code depending on a function parameter value?

Im doing some image functions, which have lots of repetitive code, such as:

int r,sr;
int g,sg;
int b,sb;
int a,sa;
...
for(...){
    sr += input[posin+0];
    sg += input[posin+1];
    sb += input[posin+2];
    sa += input[posin+3];
}
...
output[posout+0] = sr;
output[posout+1] = sg;
output[posout+2] = sb;
output[posout+3] = sa;

How can i use templates to do this from the above code:

int r,sr;
int g,sg;
int b,sb;
...
for(...){
    sr += input[posin+0];
    sg += input[posin+1];
    sb += input[posin+2];
}
...
output[posout+0] = sr;
output[posout+1] = sg;
output[posout+2] = sb;

or etc, depending on a value i give to the function? I could simply add if() in the loops, but that will slow down the function. So, i want to cut parts of the code depending on the BytesPerPixel value i give to the function, how?

Also, the BytesPerPixel value should become a const inside the function, so if i use it somewhere and its value is 3, the calculation a*BytesPerPixel would become a*3. i want this to happen because it will make it faster, and multiplication with 4 or 2 or 1 will be even faster after compiler optimizes it.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 115

Answers (1)

James McNellis
James McNellis

Reputation: 355207

Both of those can easily be reduced to:

int values[N];
// ...
for (...) {
    for (int i(0); i < N; ++i) {
        values[i] += input[posin + i];
    }
}

for (int i(0); i < N; ++i) {
    output[posout + i] = values[i];
}

N can be provided as a nontype template parameter; for example:

template <unsigned N>
void f() {
    // ...
}

Upvotes: 3

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