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IIFE (Immediately-Invoked Function Expression) is a common tool used in JavaScript. The idea is to both define an anonymous function and call it in the same expression. The point is to produce a local scope for variables so they do not pollute the global scope.

This same technique can be deployed in C++ to lead to cleaner, safer, more performant code when building up objects which require multiple steps to initialize...

And that was Meeting C++ 2014

By Meeting C++ | Dec 20, 2014 04:48 AM | Tags: conference community basics

I wrote a little bit about this years Meeting C++ conference and the year it self:

And that was Meeting C++ 2014

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Do you remember? 2 weeks ago, the first day of this years conference came to an end, and I was happy to know that things went so well...

C++ Compiler Benchmarks--Imagine Raytracer

By Adrien Hamelin | Dec 19, 2014 04:38 PM | Tags: performance efficiency

On the blog Imagine Raytracer a few days ago:

C++ Compiler Benchmarks

by Imagine Raytracer

From the article:

[...] I decided to try 4.9.2 which had just been released. This seemed to showed a fairly serious regression in terms of speed (speed being a pretty important aspect for a renderer), so I decided I'd do a more comprehensive comparison of the latest main compilers for the Linux platform, as back in 2011 and 2012 I used to do compiler benchmarks (GCC, LLVM and ICC) regularly every six months or so on my own code (including Imagine), and on the commercial VFX compositor made by the company I worked for at the time, and it had been a while since I'd compared them myself...

Plain threads are the GOTO of todays computing

By Meeting C++ | Dec 19, 2014 03:57 AM | Tags: threading performance parallelism keynote intermediate experimental efficiency advanced

I'd like to share with you Hartmut Kaisers Keynote from Meeting C++ 2014:

Plain Threads are the GOTO of todays Computing

by Hartmut Kaiser

Video:

LINQ-like List Manipulation in C++

By ltorje | Dec 18, 2014 12:25 PM | Tags: None

Cross platform LINQ for C++

LINQ-like List Manipulation in C++

by Gaston Hillar

From the article:

When developers make the move from C# to C++, they definitely miss Language-Integrated Query (LINQ) features. Cpplinq is an excellent open-source project that uses C++11 features to provide extensible LINQ-like list manipulation to C++.

I'm sad to say Farewell Dr. Dobb's. Thank you for all the good articles.

Let's play a game: Spot the bug in popular open-source projects -- Andrey Karpov

By Andrey Karpov | Dec 18, 2014 11:55 AM | Tags: quiz basics

[We don't often link to quiz-like sites, particularly product-specific ones, but in this case we felt that this could be of broad interest to some of our readers. -- Ed.]

The authors of the PVS-Studio analyzer invite you to test your attentiveness:

Let's play a game -- spot the bug in popular open-source projects

by Andrey Karpov

From the article:

Code analyzers never get tired and can find errors a human's eye cannot easily notice. We have picked a few code fragments with errors revealed by PVS-Studio, all the fragments taken from well-known open-source projects.

We invite you to take part in a competition against code analyzers to test your agility by trying to find the errors by yourself. You will be offered 15 randomly selected tasks. Every correct answer earns you one score if you give it within 60 seconds. The code fragments are short and 60 seconds is a fair limit.

Let's examine a couple of examples with errors for you to understand how to give the answer...

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The Evolving Search for Effective C++ --Scott Meyers

By Razvan Pascalau | Dec 18, 2014 04:23 AM | Tags: c++11 basics

Scott Meyers' keynote at the Meeting C++ 2014 conference. A short description can be found on

the presenters blog.

The Evolving Search for Effective C++

by Scott Meyers

Description from the blog:

The video of my keynote address at Meeting C++ 2014 on December 5 has just been posted to the Meeting C++ Channel at YouTube. I was given a long time slot (two hours), so I addressed two rather different topics, both based on my work of the past quarter century identifying and promulgating guidelines for effective C++ programming...

biicode 2.0 is out -- biicode Team

By Jordi Mon Companys | Dec 17, 2014 09:43 AM | Tags: tool efficiency dependency manager community

biicode, a C++ dependency manager, releases version 2.0

biicode 2.0 is out

by biicode Team

Who's biicode for?

For C/C++ developers that think a dependency manager is needed, biicode is a multiplatform tool and hosting service that allows you to build your projects easily, integrate third party code and reuse code among projects with just #includes.

Software Duct Tape: Binding the C++ Universe Together -- Glennan Carnie

By Blog Staff | Dec 16, 2014 08:51 AM | Tags: None

In case you missed it last week on Sticky Bits:

Software Duct Tape -- Binding the C++ Universe Together

by Glennan Carnie

From the article:

One of the cornerstones of object-oriented design is the concept of objects interacting by sending messages to form mechanisms – units of higher-order (or ‘emergent’) behaviour.

In order to send a message (in this case, invoke a member function) an object must have a ‘link’ to the target object. That link is formed by building in an association between the two classes as part of the type’s definition.

In this article we look at building associations between classes and forming run-time links so objects can communicate...