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By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 16, 2021 11:30 AM | Tags: community
Are you going to update?
Boost Version 1.77.0 released
From the release:
New Libraries
A C++14 reflection library, from Peter Dimov. Provides macros for describing enumerators and struct/class members, and primitives for querying this information.
Lambda2:
A C++14, dependency-free, single header lambda library, from Peter Dimov. Allows simple function objects to be constructed via expressions such as _1 + 5, _1 % 2 == 0, _1 > _2, or _1 == ' ' || _1 == '\t'...
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 13, 2021 12:45 PM | Tags: community
Registration is now open for CppCon 2021, which starts on October 24 and will be held both in person and online. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from our most recent in-person conference in 2019 and our online conference in 2020. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2021 to attend in person, online, or both!
Some Programming Myths Revisited
by Patrice Roy
Summary of the talk:
We have been taught, or we ourselves have taught, things that we took for granted as being "good practice" in programming. Such things often stem from the "wisdom of the ancients" (although computer science being young as sciences come, some of the "ancients" are still among us and thriving today, and we're so lucky to have them!), and are in effect part of our "myths".
However, being as grounded in the science-that-there-was as these recommendations are, our ideas have evolved, so have our programming languages, and it can be interesting to revisit some of these taken-for-granted ideas.
In C++, particularly in what some call "modern C++", we find a language that is different enough from its forebears to make revisiting our "myths" interesting. How do such things as "goto considered harmful" or "only one return per function", for example, hold as "wisdom" with respect to modern C++? Do they still help us write better programs or should be rethink them under the light of modern languages and practice?
The aim of this talk is to examine what some commonly heard recommendations or advices with respect to programming practice mean in the context of "modern" C++. We will take a small set of such advices, present them in context, show how well (or how badly) they suit today's C++, and try to rephrase them if this seems advantageous.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 13, 2021 12:27 PM | Tags: c++20
If you can, start using them!
Moving a project to C++ named Modules
by Cameron DaCamara
From the article:
There is a lot of hype (and perhaps restraint) to using modules in projects. The general blocker tends to be build support, but even with good build support there is a distinct lack of useful resources for practices around moving projects to using named modules (not just header units). In this blog we will take a small project I created, analyze its components, draft up a plan for modularizing it, and execute that plan...
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 13, 2021 12:24 PM | Tags: c++11
The series contine.
Variadic Templates or the Power of Three Dots
by Rainer Grimm
From the article:
A variadic template is a template that can have an arbitrary number of template parameters. This feature may seem magical to you if you see it the first time. So, let me demystify variadic templates...
By Hartmut Kaiser | Aug 13, 2021 08:49 AM | Tags: performance parallelism heterogeneous computing distributed computing concurrency c++20 c++17 c++14 c++11
The STE||AR Group has released V1.7.1 of HPX -- A C++ Standard library for parallelism and concurrency.
HPX V1.7.1 Released
The newest version of HPX (V1.7.1) is now available for download! This release fixes minor problems found after the version 1.7.0. It fixes a bug in the internals of actions, adds a version check to the new Asio dependency, and slightly improves the performance of spinlocks among other minor changes. Importantly, the experimental hpx::execution::simdpar execution policy introduced in 1.7.0 was renamed to hpx::execution::par_simd for consistency with the standard parallel execution policies. While this is a breaking change in a patch release, we felt it was important to make this adaptation as soon as possible. The full list of improvements, fixes, and breaking changes can be found in the release notes.
HPX is a general purpose parallel C++ runtime system for applications of any scale. It implements all of the related facilities as defined by the C++ Standard. As of this writing, HPX provides one of the only widely available open-source implementation of the new C++17 parallel algorithms. Additionally, HPX implements functionalities proposed as part of the ongoing C++ standardization process, such as large parts of the features related parallelism and concurrency as specified by the upcoming C++20 Standard, the C++ Concurrency TS, Parallelism TS V2, data-parallel algorithms, executors, senders/receivers and many more. It also extends the existing C++ Standard APIs to the distributed case (e.g. compute clusters) and for heterogeneous systems (e.g. GPUs).
HPX seamlessly enables a new Asynchronous C++ Standard Programming Model that tends to improve the parallel efficiency of our applications and helps reducing complexities usually associated with parallelism and concurrency.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 11, 2021 11:51 AM | Tags: None
Registration is now open for CppCon 2021, which starts on October 24 and will be held both in person and online. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from our most recent in-person conference in 2019 and our online conference in 2020. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2021 to attend in person, online, or both!
The Surprising Costs of void() (and Other Not-Quite-Innocuous Evils)
by Patrice Roy
Summary of the talk:
There are some things that might pass us by without us noticing them as evil or, as they have come to be known, Bad Code Smells.
Many of these little things are acceptable in some cases, and thus pass unnoticed in some code reviews. They are respectful of language rules, and thus pass unnoticed through the compiler's virtual hands. They might even lead to working code... and if it works, it's fine, no?
The idea for this talk came about when discussing with colleagues about such suspicious code and coding patterns, and hearing such questions as "but why is that a problem?". It's about those little evils that creep in code and poison our practice in subtle ways (making memory consumption higher than it should be, making execution slower than it should be, making reuse harder than it should be, etc.).
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 11, 2021 11:44 AM | Tags: performance c++17
Would do it the same way?
How to Parallelise CSV Reader - C++17 in Practice
by Bartlomiej Filipek
Friom the article:
At C++Stories (and in my C++17 book) you can find several articles on Parallel Algorithms introduced in C++17. The examples included in those posts were usually relatively straightforward. How about writing something larger?
In this text, you’ll see how to build a tool that works on CSV files, parses lines into sales records and then performs calculations on the data.
You’ll see how easy it is to add parallel execution to selected algorithms and have a performance improvement across the whole application (for example 4.5x on 6 cores, including file loading). In the end, we’ll discuss problems that we found along the way and possible future enhancements.
Here’s the plan:
- How to build an application that loads CSV files
- How to efficiently use parallel algorithms
- How to use std::filesystem library to gather required files
- How to use other C++17 library features like std::optional, conversion routines - std::from_chars and string_view
- Where to add [[nodiscard]] and improve code readability
Let’s go...
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 11, 2021 11:42 AM | Tags: basics
The series continue.
Template Instantiation
by Rainer Grimm
From the article:
Template instantiation is the creation of a concrete function or a concrete class out of a function template or class template. The creation of template instantiation can be implicit (compiler-generated) or explicit (user-provided)...
By Andrey Karpov | Aug 11, 2021 01:29 AM | Tags: static code analysis sast pvs-studio plugin jetbrains devtool clion bugs
The PVS-Studio analyzer already has plugins for such IDEs from JetBrains as Rider, IntelliJ IDEA and Android Studio. Somehow we missed another IDE - CLion. The time has come to make amends!
PVS-Studio for JetBrains CLion: ad astra per aspera
by Evgeniy Ovsyannikov, Sergey Vasiliev
From the article:
Here's an answer to the question that we are discussing - PVS-Studio and CLion collaboration will let us detect more errors at the writing code stage. CLion highlights the errors on the fly, but at the same time is limited in the analysis capabilities. PVS-Studio doesn't highlight errors immediately, but it can perform deeper analysis. Note that PVS-Studio has an incremental analysis – the mode that checks only the changed files.
By Meeting C++ | Aug 11, 2021 12:59 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community c++20 c++17 books
Meeting C++ has now its own C++ book section:
Adding a book section to Meeting C++
by Jens Weller
From the article:
The section offers a listing of current C++ books, currently 14 books by various authors such as Bjarne Stroustrup or Rainer Grimm! More books will be listed in the future, as not all authors had yet time to list their books. July/August is a holiday month after all, though that might give you the time to read a book!