BeCPP Symposium 2026 (organized by BeCPP): Now on YouTube!

Gabriel Dos Reis - Tightening the Screws with C++ Profiles

Abstract:

The C++ community has been challenged to provide practical solutions to the problem of memory safety prevalent in some software with large blast radius.  By "practical", I mean solutions that scale to billions of lines of existing running code that deliver value every single day.  The constraints we are dealt afford us neither the luxury of pausing the world for complete rewrite from scratch, nor only focusing on "future", yet to be written, code.  C++ profiles are a tooling-based evolutionary approach that meets those constraints.  They enable the C++ community to tackle similar problems in a single, extensible, and flexible framework.

About the Speaker:

Dr. Gabriel Dos Reis is an Architect for Visual Studio at Microsoft, working in the area of large scale software construction, tools, and technique.  His contributions to C++ include scalable generic programming, pioneering compile-time computation, language support for modularity, safety, and security.  He is interested in all aspects of software construction with bias towards computational logic, formal methods, and the fun of building useful tools.