By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 9, 2015 09:39 AM | Tags: performance intermediate
Release of C++ Format 1.0, a small, safe and fast formatting library for C++
by Victor Zverovich
From the main page:
C++ Format is an open-source formatting library for C++. It can be used as a safe alternative to printf or as a fast alternative to IOStreams...
By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 9, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: intermediate c++11
While we wait for CppCon 2015 in September, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2014. Here is today’s feature:
Modernizing Legacy C++ Code
by James McNellis and Kate Gregory
Summary of the talk:
C++ is a programming language with a long, storied history spanning over three decades--four if one includes its C ancestry. The C++ language has undergone many changes during that time, compiler technology has advanced substantially, and computers today are very different from the computers of decades past. But despite all of these advances, there's an awful lot of C++ code in use today that looks like it was written in the 1980s. In some cases, the code was written in the 1980s and it's still in use; in other cases, it's recently-written code that just doesn't use modern style.
In this talk, we'll discuss some of the problems with legacy code, and review some practical techniques for applying principles of modern C++ to gradually improve the quality of legacy code and improve maintainability and debuggability. We'll show how some very small changes to code can yield huge benefits.
By Blog Staff | Feb 6, 2015 02:45 PM | Tags: None
New WG21 papers are available. If you are not a committee member, please use the comments section below or the std-proposals forum for public discussion.
Document number: N4373
Date: 2015-01-26
Atomic View (Revision to N4142, Atomic Operations on a Very Large Array)
by Carter Edwards and Hans Boehm
Excerpt:
This paper proposes an extension to the atomic operations library [atomics] for atomic operations applied to non-atomic objects. The proposal is in three parts: (1) the concept of an atomic view, (2) application of this concept for atomic operations applied to members of a very large array in a high performance computing (HPC) code, and (3) application of this concept for atomic operations applied to an object in a large legacy code which cannot replace this object with a corresponding atomic
object.
By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 6, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: performance intermediate
While we wait for CppCon 2015 in September, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2014. Here is today’s feature:
Writing Data Parallel Algorithms on GPUs
by Ade Miller
Summary of the talk:
Today most PCs, tablets and phones support multi-core processors and most programmers have some familiarity with writing (task) parallel code. Many of those same devices also have GPUs but writing code to run on a GPU is harder. Or is it?
Getting to grips with GPU programming is really about understanding things in a data parallel way. This talk will look at some of the common patterns for implementing algorithms on today's GPUs using examples from the C++ AMP Algorithms Library. Along the way it will cover some of the unique aspects of writing code for GPUs and contrast them with a more conventional code running on a CPU.
By Meeting C++ | Feb 6, 2015 04:10 AM | Tags: intermediate c++14 boost basics
A new blog post at Meeting C++, this time its about std::random_shuffle and C++14:
std::random_shuffle is deprecated in C++14
by Jens Weller
From the article:
So, one of the new things in C++14 is, that the committee has actually started to deprecate (and later remove) a few things from the standard. One of them is a rather awkward function: random_shuffle.
By Meeting C++ | Feb 5, 2015 10:26 AM | Tags: meeting c++ intermediate efficiency c++11 basics
A new video from Meeting C++ 2014:
Designing value classes for modern C++
by Mark Mutz
From the talk description:
C++11 is now widely available, and so is C++14. Like for users of the language, C++11/14 is a new language for C++ library writers, too. In this talk, we will walk you through the new C++ features that impact class design...
By Meeting C++ | Feb 5, 2015 03:41 AM | Tags: sql meeting c++ intermediate database c++11
A new video from Meeting C++ 2014:
Sqlpp11, An EDSL For Type-Safe SQL In C++
by Roland Bock
From the talk description:
Most C/C++ interfaces to SQL databases are string based. Theses strings effectively hide expression structures, names and types from the compiler. And they are vendor-specific. And they defer expression parsing and validation until the test phase or (even worse) production...
By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 4, 2015 02:12 PM | Tags: intermediate c++11
Quick A: To enabling moving out of *iterator.
Recently on SO:
What is move_iterator for?
If I understand it correct,
a=std::move(b)binds reference a to the address of b. And after this operation the content that b points to is not guaranteed.The implementation of
move_iteratorhere has this lineauto operator[](difference_type n) const -> decltype(std::move(current[n])) { return std::move(current[n]); }However, I don't think it makes sense to
std::movean element in an array. What happens ifa=std::move(b[n])?The following example confuses me also:
std::string concat = std::accumulate( std::move_iterator<iter_t>(source.begin()), std::move_iterator<iter_t>(source.end()), std::string("1234"));Since the concat will itself allocate a continuous chunk of memory to store the result, which will not have any overlap with source. The data in source will be copied to concat but not moved.
By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 4, 2015 02:08 PM | Tags: performance intermediate
Everything is in the title:
What Every Programmer Should Know About Compiler Optimizations
by Hadi Brais
From the article:
High-level programming languages offer many abstract programming constructs such as functions, conditional statements and loops that make us amazingly productive. However, one disadvantage of writing code in a high-level programming language is the potentially significant decrease in performance. Ideally, you should write understandable, maintainable code—without compromising performance. For this reason, compilers attempt to automatically optimize the code to improve its performance, and they’ve become quite sophisticated in doing so nowadays. They can transform loops, conditional statements, and recursive functions; eliminate whole blocks of code; and take advantage of the target instruction set architecture (ISA) to make the code fast and compact. It’s much better to focus on writing understandable code, than making manual optimizations that result in cryptic, hard-to-maintain code. In fact, manually optimizing the code might prevent the compiler from performing additional or more efficient optimizations...
By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 4, 2015 02:03 PM | Tags: c++11 advanced
Did you you know that...
Expressions can have Reference Type
by Scott Meyers
From the article:
Today I got email about some information in Effective Modern C++. The email included the statement, "An expression never has reference type." This is easily shown to be incorrect, but people assert it to me often enough that I'm writing this blog entry so that I can refer people to it in the future...