Templates: CRTP
Explore how the Curiously Recurring Template Pattern CRTP in Modern C++ enables static polymorphism and mixins. Understand its application in embedded and system programming to improve performance and design flexibility by compiling method dispatch at compile-time, avoiding runtime overhead.
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CRTP
The acronym CRTP stands for the C++ idiom Curiously Recurring Template Pattern. CRTP is a technique in Modern C++ in which a Derived class derives from a class template Base. The key is that Base has Derived as a template argument.
Let’s have a look at an example:
template<class T>
class Base{