If your use cases are “normal” (or at least, in-line with what we’ve found to be normal), Abseil provides a useful counterpoint to the designs chosen by the C++ standard.

This document is designed to allow you to get the Abseil development environment up and running. We recommend that each person starting development with Abseil code at least run through this quick …

Abseil is an open-source collection of C++ code (compliant to C++17) designed to augment the C++ standard library. This document introduces Abseil and provides an overview of the code we’re …

Abseil encompasses the most basic building blocks of Google’s codebase: code that is production-tested and will be fully maintained for years to come. Our primary purpose in releasing Abseil is to …

The Abseil C++ Developer Guide provides programming documentation for the Abseil C++ code on https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp. Much of the code within that repository is heavily documented; …

The developer guides below complement comments within the Abseil header files. Over time, we hope to have comprehensive documentation, including examples, for all code within Abseil within this guide.

Abseil provides a number of containers as alternatives to STL containers. These containers generally adhere to the properties of STL containers, though there are often some associated API differences …

This document is designed to allow you to get the Abseil development environment up and running using CMake. We recommend that each person starting development with Abseil code at least run …

Enforces Abseil policies that can be enforced at build time, such as minimum compiler and library versions. For more information, consult the Abseil Platforms Guide.

Jul 27, 2023 · @misc{DeanGhemawatPerformance2025, author = {Dean, Jeffrey and Ghemawat, Sanjay}, title = {Performance Hints}, year = {2025}, howpublished = …