From Jason Turner
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Summary

This episode explores one of C++20's significant improvements: the addition of constexpr qualifiers to most standard algorithms. Jason demonstrates how algorithms in the C++ Standard Library, like std::sort, can now be evaluated at compile time, enabling compile-time manipulation and validation of data. Using cppreference.com as a reference, he shows that this enhancement applies to nearly all algorithms in the header, though some in the header (like std::accumulate) didn't receive this update. The episode concludes with a practical example using a constexpr std::sort function to create and verify a compile-time sorted array.

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