Namespaces are arguably one of the least-used tool by programmers. This is most unfortunate, though, since they can serve as a wonderful method of organizing code. Anyone who has seen the line "using ...

I noticed some performance issues with my Linux machine. So I used namespaces to shine some light on the problem.

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