CppCast Episode 73: SG14 Update with Guy Davidson

By robwirving | Oct 7, 2016 08:15 AM | Tags: None

Episode 73 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Guy Davidson from Creative Assembly to discuss the work of the SG 14 game dev/low latency group including his ring buffer proposal and more.

CppCast Episode 73: SG14 Update with Guy Davidson

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Guy Davidson is the Coding Manager of Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien:Isolation and the upcoming Halo Wars sequel, Guy has been writing games since the early 1980s. He is now also a contributor to SG14, the study group devoted to low latency, real time requirements, and performance/efficiency especially for Games, Financial/Banking, and Simulations. He speaks at schools, colleges and universities about programming and likes to help good programmers become better programmers.

Subtle bugs through leaking

By Meeting C++ | Oct 6, 2016 06:50 AM | Tags: raii performance intermediate efficiency c++11 boost

Memories inspired by Herb Sutters Keynote at CppCon:

Subtle bugs through leaking

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Herb Sutters keynote on writing leak free code in C++ reminded me of seeing the opposite as a freelancer: code that has very obvious leaks. And it made me also think about what 'bugs' some of them caused.

C++ Weekly Episode 31: IncludeOS—Jason Turner

By Jason Turner | Oct 4, 2016 12:16 PM | Tags: intermediate

Episode 31 of C++ Weekly.

IncludeOS

by Jason Turner

About the show:

Jason explores what IncludeOS is and how you might use it for OS experimentation.

build2 0.4.0 released

By Boris Kolpackov | Oct 4, 2016 08:03 AM | Tags: package build

build2 is an open source, cross-platform toolchain for building and packaging C++ code. It includes a build system, package manager, and repository web interface. There is also cppget.org, a public repository of open source C++ packages.

build2 0.4.0 Release Notes

From the announcement:

This release includes a number of major new features in the build system (support for Windows/MSVC, C compilation, pkg-config integration, library versioning and export model, as well as the uninstall operation) and packag manager (support for repository authentication and system packages).

This version has been tested on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, and FreeBSD with GCC, Clang (both vanilla and Apple's), MinGW GCC, MSVC, and Intel icc.

Metashell 3.0.0 is available

By Ábel Sinkovics | Oct 4, 2016 05:37 AM | Tags: advanced

Metashell provides a compile-time debugger for debugging template instantiations and macro usage.

Metashell 3.0.0 is available

From the website:

Some of the major new features in 3.0.0:

• Profiling template instantiations
• Debugging template instantiations in expressions involving SFINAE
• Displaying preprocessed expressions

Commands for exploring the available headers (similar to the which and ls commands).
The full list of changes can be found here.

An online demo can be found at http://metashell.org/about/demo/

Installers can be downloaded from http://metashell.org/getting_metashell/installers#version-300