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By Jordi Mon Companys | Nov 23, 2016 06:14 AM | Tags: community
JFrog DevOps firm acquires open source C++ package manager Conan.io
DevOps firm JFrog acquires Spain’s Conan
From the article:
“Our vision is aligned with JFrog’s. Conan will now utilize JFrog’s Enterprise-ready solutions in order to build and release C/C++ packages, and empowering JFrog’s products with Conan will open a whole new automated world for the C/C++ community,” said Martinez de Bartolomé.
By Adi | Nov 23, 2016 05:50 AM | Tags: None
There is a whole host of powerful closure critters that can squeeze into a captureless lambda.
Leaky Lambdas
by Adi Shavit
From the article:
It turns out that even captureless lambdas (which are e.g. convertible to function pointers) can see, hear, sniff and use certain things outside their own scope in their enclosing closure!
By Adrien Hamelin | Nov 22, 2016 01:12 PM | Tags: intermediate experimental
Did you know?
More About Variadic Templates
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
I gave an introduction to variadic templates last week. Today I will talk about some more features that have or will be added in that area in C++11, 14 and 17.
By Felix Petriconi | Nov 22, 2016 11:34 AM | Tags: None
The Call for Session for the ACCU 2017 conference was extended.
Call for Sessions extension
by ACCU
From the article
Now that the conference website is up and running, we are pleased to confirm that the deadline for session proposals has been extended until 2016-12-02T23:58+00:00. That’s a few minutes before the midnight (UTC and Europe/London) that ends Friday 2nd December 2016.
The full details are in Call for Sessions which has been updated to reflect the new submission deadline.
By Jason Turner | Nov 22, 2016 10:08 AM | Tags: intermediate c++17
Episode 38 of C++ Weekly.
C++17's Class Template Argument Type Deduction
by Jason Turner
About the show:
In this episode Jason looks at C++17's class template argument type deduction and what its capabilities are. Some limitations and possible gotchas of usage are also discussed.
By Marco Arena | Nov 22, 2016 06:38 AM | Tags: visual studio
The Visual C++ Team is excited to announce that the compiler in Visual Studio 2017 RC will feature a mode much closer to ISO C++ standards conformance than any time in its history:
Give Visual C++ a Switch to Standard Conformance
by Andrew Pardoe
From the article:
The Visual C++ Team is previewing a compiler mode whereby longstanding non-conforming C++ constructs are rejected. This includes fixes to pre-C++11 non-conformance bugs that affect a significant amount of existing code...
By Adi | Nov 21, 2016 11:35 PM | Tags: None
Are C++ lambdas magical?
Lambda Magic ✨
by Adi Shavit
From the article:
"Like fairies, captureless lambdas are pure and magical creatures.
Unlike fairies, captureless lambdas can be converted to function pointers."
By Mantosh Kumar | Nov 21, 2016 10:34 PM | Tags: performance efficiency
Discussion on how we can efficiently use std::vector<T> container.
6 Tips to supercharge C++11 vector performance
by Deb Haldar
From the article:
Vector is like the swiss army knife of C++ STL containers. In the words of Bjarne Stroutsoup – “By default, use Vector when you need a container”. For mere mortals like us, we take this as gospel and just run with it. However, Vector is just a tool and like any tool, it can be used both effectively or ineffectively.
In this article we’ll look at 6 ways to optimize usage of vectors. We’ll look at both efficient and inefficient ways to perform the most common programming tasks using vectors, measure the performance gain we obtain by using vectors efficiently and try to understand why we’re getting the performance gain.
By Mantosh Kumar | Nov 21, 2016 09:44 PM | Tags: None
Discussion on "Distinguish between () and {} when creating objects".
Help me sort out the meaning of "{}" as a constructor argument
by Scott Meyers
From the article:
My experiments showed that one factor affecting whether "{{}}" as an argument list yields a zero-length std::initializer_list<T> was whether T had a default constructor, so I threw together some test code involving three classes, two of which could not be default-constructed. I then used both "({})" (note the outer parentheses) and "{{}}" as argument lists to a constructor taking a std::initializer_list for a template class imaginatively named X. When the constructor runs, it displays the number of elements in its std::initializer_list parameter.
By robwirving | Nov 18, 2016 08:49 AM | Tags: None
Episode 79 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Daniel Marjamäki to talk about developing the CppCheck static analysis tool.
CppCast Episode 79: Cppcheck with Daniel Marjamäki
by Rob Irving and Jason Turner
About the interviewee:
Daniel lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and son. He has a degree in electronics but has never worked as an electronics engineer. Daniel works as a consultant at Evidente in Sweden which provides consultants and contractors for embedded software development and static analysis. Daniel started Cppcheck almost 10 years ago as a hobby project that he works on in his spare time. Daniel sometimes works on other hobby projects such as an open source retro mobile phone with a rotary dial plate instead of buttons or a screen.