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Postponing sqrt Computations

Explore how to optimize vector length comparisons in C++ by using proxy objects to defer costly sqrt operations. This lesson helps you understand lazy evaluation to improve performance without sacrificing code readability.

This section will show you how to use a proxy object to postpone, or even avoid, using the computationally heavy std::sqrt() function when comparing the length of two-dimensional vectors.

A simple two-dimensional vector class

Let’s start with a simple two-dimensional vector class. It has xx and yy ...