From 26693e9774804e8f5afc53953fee9920d33688ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sayan <reach2sayan@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 23:14:11 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] improvements and image

---
 fastcast.hpp  |  28 ++++++++++------------------
 ptroffset.png | Bin 0 -> 3278 bytes
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 ptroffset.png

diff --git a/fastcast.hpp b/fastcast.hpp
index c5c27df..9be6c8e 100644
--- a/fastcast.hpp
+++ b/fastcast.hpp
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
 #define CONSTEXPR
 #endif
 
-
 namespace fastcast {
 
 // Core implementation for pointer types
@@ -59,12 +58,10 @@ template <typename To, typename From> CONSTEXPR inline To cast_impl(From *ptr) {
     // slow path
     auto result = dynamic_cast<To>(ptr);
     cached_vtable = this_vtable;
-    if (result) {
-      offset = reinterpret_cast<const std::byte *>(result) -
-               reinterpret_cast<const std::byte *>(ptr);
-    } else {
-      offset = FAILED_OFFSET;
-    }
+    offset = static_cast<bool>(result)
+                 ? reinterpret_cast<const std::byte *>(result) -
+                       reinterpret_cast<const std::byte *>(ptr)
+                 : FAILED_OFFSET;
     return result;
   }
 }
@@ -84,25 +81,20 @@ template <typename To, typename From>
   requires std::is_reference_v<To>
 constexpr inline To fast_cast(From &ref) {
   using ToPtr = std::add_pointer_t<std::remove_reference_t<To>>;
-  auto casted_ptr = fast_cast<ToPtr>(&ref);
-  if (!casted_ptr)
-    throw std::bad_cast{};
-  return *casted_ptr;
+  if (auto casted = fast_cast<ToPtr>(&ref))
+    return *casted;
+  throw std::bad_cast{};
 }
 
 // shared_ptr overload
 template <typename To, typename From>
 constexpr inline std::shared_ptr<To>
 fast_dynamic_pointer_cast(const std::shared_ptr<From> &ptr) {
-  return std::shared_ptr<To>(ptr, fast_cast<To *>(ptr.get()));
+  if (auto raw = fast_cast<To *>(ptr.get()))
+    return std::shared_ptr<To>(ptr, std::move(raw));
+  return nullptr;
 }
 
-// Identity cast (same type)
-template <typename To, typename From>
-  requires std::is_same_v<std::remove_cv_t<To>, std::remove_cv_t<From>>
-constexpr inline To fast_cast(To ptr) {
-  return ptr;
-}
 } // namespace fastcast
 
 using fastcast::fast_cast;
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From 8858c969eaca90f123d1dc8499e05459d7254f5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sayan <reach2sayan@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2025 23:15:18 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] update reamde

---
 README.md | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a0a1940..5d51dc2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@
 correctness.
 
 The code is heavily inspired by [FastDynamicCast](https://github.com/tobspr/FastDynamicCast). This is effectively a
-modern C++ implementation of FastDynamicCast.
+modern C++ implementation of FastDynamicCast. This is the basic idea in a single image
+
+![offset](ptroffset.png)
 
 # Improvements from FastDynamicCast