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C++ coroutines: The problem of the DispatcherQueue task that runs too soon, part 4--Raymond Chen

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 9, 2020 01:07 PM | Tags: experimental

The series continue.

C++ coroutines: The problem of the DispatcherQueue task that runs too soon, part 4

by Raymond Chen

From the article:

Last time, we made another attempt to fix a race condition in C++/WinRT’s resume_foreground(Dispatcher­Queue) function when it tries to resume execution on a dispatcher queue. We did this by having the queued task wait until await_suspend was finished before allowing the coroutine to resume, and we found a nice place to put the synchronization object, namely in the awaiter, but even with that fix, we introduced additional memory barriers into the hot code path.

But it turns out all this work was unnecessary. We just had to look at the problem a different way.

The purpose of storing the result of Try­Enqueue into m_queued is so that await_resume can report whether the lambda was queued or not. But we can infer that information another way: The fact that our lambda is running means that got got queued. Because if the lambda were not queued, then it would never have run in the first place...

C++ coroutines: The problem of the DispatcherQueue task that runs too soon, part 3--Raymond Chen

By Adrien Hamelin | Jan 9, 2020 01:04 PM | Tags: experimental

The series contine.

C++ coroutines: The problem of the DispatcherQueue task that runs too soon, part 3

by Raymond Chen

From the article:

Last time, we fixed a race condition in C++/WinRT’s resume_foreground(Dispatcher­Queue) function when it tries to resume execution on a dispatcher queue. We did this by having the queued task wait until await_suspend was finished before allowing the coroutine to resume. The hard part was finding a place to put the synchronization object, and we ended up putting it in the queued task’s lambda...

Launching the Meeting C++ Community Survey

By Meeting C++ | Jan 8, 2020 08:31 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community

Take the Meeting C++ Community Survey!

Launching the Meeting C++ Community Survey

by Jens Weller

From the article:

One thing then often has bugged me when looking at the C++ community is that we don't really had good numbers on most things. Jetbrains, ISOCPP and Bartek's coding blog have launched surveys in the last years, which changed this a little. Also I've been doing some surveys on Twitter, giving some limited insight into C++ related topics. But Twitter surveys are very limited, and for a long time I had an idea on how to make this a continuous survey.

C++ User Group meetings in January 2020

By Meeting C++ | Jan 8, 2020 02:40 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community basics

The monthly overview on upcoming C++ User Group meetings all over the world!

C++ User Group meetings in January 2020

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Happy new years! The year has begun, and lots of C++ User Groups have their first meeting of 2020.

Would like to start your own group or looking for ideas in running your current group? Watch my talk from CppCon:

CppCon YT - CppCon 2019: Jens Weller “Starting and Running C++ User Groups”

ACCU 2020 Registration is open -- ACCU

By Felix Petriconi | Jan 6, 2020 08:36 AM | Tags: community

The registration for the upcomming ACCU 2020 conference, 2020-03-25 to 2020-03-28, in Bristol, UK has opened.

ACCU 2020 Registration

by ACCU

About the conference:

Historically, ACCU has a lot of C++ and C content, and is proud of that: ACCU is the foremost annual conference for people interested in C++ and C, at least in and around the UK. But it is not just a C++ and C conference, ACCU is about programming in whatever language people are using, with whatever tools and processes people are using: D, Chapel, Java, Kotlin, C#, F#, Groovy, Rust, Go, Python, Ruby, Lisp, to name just a few programming languages about which there have been sessions at ACCU conferences. Git, CMake, Meson, TDD, BDD, allthese tools and techniques have been the focus of sessions at ACCU. The ACCU Conference is looking for sessions that will be interesting to people who create software.

Our keynote speaker are this year: Patricia Aas, Emily Bache, Kevlin Henney and Sean Parent

There are these preconference workshops the day before the conference:

 

 

C++ Standard Version Mix-up

By Christoph Cullmann | Jan 5, 2020 12:32 AM | Tags: None

Libraries compiled with different C++ standard versions might not be as compatible as wanted.

C++ Standard Version Mix-up

by Christoph Cullmann

From the article:

We work with MSVC 2019 on Windows and all worked fine with LLVM 9.x, but with master, close to all my tests did now segfault in aligned_free.

Some months ago, the implementation of DenseMap got improved to use the allocate_buffer/deallocate_buffer functions to use (if possible) aligned allocation.

Unfortunately, this means, during the compilation of the library, the checks there ensure it doesn’t use these code paths, on the other side, during compilation of our tools, it does, as the allocation functions are fully inline in the header including the feature checks.