CppCon 2014 An Overview of C++11/14, Part II--Leor Zolman

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 30, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: c++14 basics

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:

An Overview of C++11/14, Part II

by Leor Zolman

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

This accelerated introduction to C++11/14 surveys most of the key additions to the C++ language, including support for increased code clarity (lambdas, uniform initialization, auto, new OOD control) and improved performance (rvalue references, move semantics and perfect forwarding.)

The presentation is designed for those who truly need a quick overview of the new C++, so the focus is on breadth rather than depth. Whenever feasible, new language features are presented in a style showcasing how they improve over their "Old C++" counterparts.

Simple and Clean Code vs. Performance -- Arne Mertz

By Mantosh Kumar | Mar 29, 2015 06:46 PM | Tags: None

This article talks about why simple code is more important.

Simple and Clean Code vs. Performance

by Arne Mertz

From the article:

One of C++s strengths is that it is possible to write very performant code. But does that mean we always have to worry about performance and write our everyday code as performant as possible? Should we give up simplicity for performance? Do we have to?

CppCon 2014 An Overview of C++11/14, Part I--Leor Zolman

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 27, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: None

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:

An Overview of C++11/14, Part I

by Leor Zolman

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

This accelerated introduction to C++11/14 surveys most of the key additions to the C++ language, including support for increased code clarity (lambdas, uniform initialization, auto, new OOD control) and improved performance (rvalue references, move semantics and perfect forwarding.)

The presentation is designed for those who truly need a quick overview of the new C++, so the focus is on breadth rather than depth. Whenever feasible, new language features are presented in a style showcasing how they improve over their "Old C++" counterparts.

CppCast Episode 5: Exploring CLion with Anastasia Kazakova -- Rob Irving

By robwirving | Mar 27, 2015 01:01 AM | Tags: None

Episode 5 of CppCast, the only podcast by C++ developers for C++ developers. In this episode Anastasia Kazakova from JetBrains joins Rob Irving to discuss the new CLion IDE.

CppCast Episode 5: Exploring CLion with Anastasia Kazakova

by Rob Irving

About the interviewee:

Being a C/C++ fan since University Anastasia has been creating real-time *nix-based systems and pushing them to production for 8 years. She has a passion for networking algorithms (especially congestion problems and network management protocols) and embedded programming, and believes in good tooling. Now she is a part of the JetBrains team working as a Product Marketing Manager for CLion the upcoming cross-platform C/C++ IDE.

C++Now 2015 Program Now Online -- Jon Kalb

By Jon Kalb | Mar 26, 2015 01:01 AM | Tags: None

The 2015 C++Now program is made up of fifty technical sessions.

C++Now 2015 Program Now Online

by Jon Kalb

The keynotes are

• Andrew Sutton on “Generic Programming with Concepts”
• Eric Niebler on “Ranges for the Standard Library”
• Tiago Quinto on “Numerical Weather Prediction”

CppCon 2014 Generic Programming with Concepts Lite, Part II--Andrew Sutton

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 25, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: experimental advanced

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:

Generic Programming with Concepts Lite, Part II

by Andrew Sutton

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

In this talk, I will give an overview of the Concepts Lite language extension for C++ and present examples of its use in design and implementation of real-world generic libraries. Concepts Lite provides the ability for programmers to directly state constraints on template arguments as part of the template declaration. These constraints are predicates which determine whether or not a template argument can be used with that template. Constraints are checked by the compiler at the point of use, meaning that that effectively constrained generic libraries will not suffer from the usual problems of insane diagnostics. Libraries written using concepts will be far more readable and maintainable than the status quo. This talk will focus on generic programming, proposed language features, and their use in building real-world libraries.

Concepts Lite is a forthcoming ISO Technical Specification (TS) aimed at publication alongside C++14. Concepts Lite is implemented in a branch of GCC, which will be made available to the audience for experiments and experience.

HPX version 0.9.10 released -- STE||AR Group

By Hartmut Kaiser | Mar 24, 2015 11:04 AM | Tags: None

The STE||AR Group has released V0.9.10 of HPX -- A general purpose parallel C++ runtime system for applications of any scale.

HPX V0.9.10 Released

The newest version of HPX (V0.9.10) is now available for download! Please see here for the release notes.

HPX now exposes an API fully conforming to the concurrency related parts of the C++11 and C++14 standards, extended and applied to distributed computing.

From the announcement:

• The major focus of this release was to improve the reliability of large scale runs. We have shown to reliably run HPX applications on up to ~24k cores (~1k nodes).
• A very important improvement introduced with this release is the refactoring of the networking infrastructure which improves the overall performance.
• We continued our work towards a complete implementation of N4354 (Working Draft, Technical Specification for C++ Extensions for Parallelism).
• Move to C++11 variadics: all of the API now uses variadic templates.

CppCon 2014 Generic Programming with Concepts Lite, Part I--Andrew Sutton

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 23, 2015 10:00 AM | Tags: experimental advanced

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:

Generic Programming with Concepts Lite, Part I

by Andrew Sutton

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

In this talk, I will give an overview of the Concepts Lite language extension for C++ and present examples of its use in design and implementation of real-world generic libraries. Concepts Lite provides the ability for programmers to directly state constraints on template arguments as part of the template declaration. These constraints are predicates which determine whether or not a template argument can be used with that template. Constraints are checked by the compiler at the point of use, meaning that that effectively constrained generic libraries will not suffer from the usual problems of insane diagnostics. Libraries written using concepts will be far more readable and maintainable than the status quo. This talk will focus on generic programming, proposed language features, and their use in building real-world libraries.

Concepts Lite is a forthcoming ISO Technical Specification (TS) aimed at publication alongside C++14. Concepts Lite is implemented in a branch of GCC, which will be made available to the audience for experiments and experience.

N4394: PL22.16/WG21 draft agenda: 4-9 May 2015, Lenexa KS/US -- Clark Nelson

By Blog Staff | Mar 20, 2015 12:53 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: N4394

Date: 2015-03-12

PL22.16/WG21 draft agenda: 4-9 May 2015, Lenexa KS/US

by Clark Nelson

Excerpt:

At this meeting we will address ballot comments on the Transactional Memory PDTS (N4302), and discuss whatever comments are available on the Concepts PDTS (N4377). We also aim to bring several projects to their next ballot stage, potentially including the following:

• Library Fundamentals 2 (prospective WD N4336)
• Concurrency (proposal N4313)
• Networking (proposal N4370)

CppCon 2014 Metaprogramming with Boost.Hana: Unifying Boost.Fusion and Boost.MPL--Louis Dionne

By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 20, 2015 08:00 AM | Tags: performance efficiency c++14 boost

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:

Metaprogramming with Boost.Hana: Unifying Boost.Fusion and Boost.MPL

by Louis Dionne

(watch on YouTube) (watch on Channel 9)

Summary of the talk:

Template metaprogramming sucks. No, seriously; you might like the imposed purely functional paradigm, but not the templates themselves. While C++11 has made our life easier, even simple metaprograms are often hard to write, impossible to maintain and slow to compile; we need better abstractions. In this talk, I will present Boost.Hana[1], an experimental C++14 library for heterogeneous computation. The library takes metaprogramming to a whole new level of expressiveness by unifying the well-known Boost.MPL and Boost.Fusion libraries under a single generic, purely functional interface. The library incorporates some of the most recent advances in C++ metaprogramming; I will give an overview of the most interesting implementation techniques used internally. Finally, I will show concrete ways to use the library so you, as a developer, can write less template black magic, increase your productivity and spend less time in coffee breaks waiting for the compiler (sorry).