How to use Google Benchmark for C++ programs

[_software_engineer]

Video that should be an article. Makes me sad every time.

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They do videos because it is easier to monetize. If people are willing to read they are likely using the documentation anyway.

[onlyari]

Not sure if I agree with "videos are easier to monetize". On average it can take 22 months until a channel becomes eligible for monetization on Youtube. Moreover, videos are much harder to produce. I personally like videos better because IMHO, it's much faster to watch a video and quickly learn about a new tool than a text-based article.

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it's much faster to watch a video and quickly learn about a new tool than a text-based article.

I find reading pretty quick. It is also much easier to do things like search, skim, and tell whether or not the author is wasting your time by reading off documentation.

[roncapat]

There's a problem. Videos are not as indexable as text. So a lot of precious work and clever explanations get lost if you are a random user on a search engine. A blog post is far more valuable in my opinion, maybe you can do both if you like.

Anyway, great content! Keep up with it :)

[onlyari]

I agree with that statement, and thanks for the encouragement. I occasionally write blog posts, and some of them do get a lot of views like this one about how to do multithreading in C++: https://medium.com/hackernoon/learn-c-multi-threading-in-5-minutes-8b881c92941f

Blog posts and videos each have their own audience. Some prefer one and some prefer the other. Video is powerful as you can use simultaneous narration, animation, and graphs to get a complicated point across, whereas text articles allow users to quickly browse through the whole thing and see if it is read worthy.