By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 15, 2020 11:41 AM | Tags: community
Another interview.
Instructor Interview: Patrice Roy / Managing Memory
Summary of the video:
In this instructor interview, Kevin Carpenter welcomes Patrice Roy for a discussion of his CppCon Academy class, Managing Memory. Patrice has been a professor for over two decades and has been to every CppCon, but this is his first time at CppCon as a Ph.D graduate!
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 15, 2020 11:13 AM | Tags: community
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JetBrains C++ Team At CppCon 2020
by Anastasia Kazakova
From the article:
The CppCon conference will be taking place fully online this year. And of course the JetBrains C++ team wouldn’t dream of missing the biggest C++ community event of the year!
We’ll join CppCon 2020 with a one-day virtual room hosted by CppCon over Remo on Thursday, September 17. And the great thing is that our CppCon virtual room is open to everyone!
By Meeting C++ | Sep 15, 2020 03:19 AM | Tags: meetingcpp events community
Some news from Meeting C++: there is now one ticket for virtual events of Meeting C++ and for Meeting C++ online a limited amount of sponsored tickets is available
Two new ticket types for Meeting C++
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Today I can announce two important updates for Meeting C++ online and Meeting C++ 2020!
One online ticket for Meeting C++ 2020 and Meeting C++ online
While you can buy separate tickets for Meeting C++ online and 2020, now there is an online ticket for all virtual Meeting C++ events in 2020 available! You can get it in the ticketshop of Meeting C++ 2020 only, as this is the easiest process to offer it. The ticket enables you to attend these online conferences...
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 11, 2020 01:22 PM | Tags: community
This year, CppCon 2020 is going virtual. The dates are still the same – September 14-18 – and we are aiming for the CppCon live event to have pretty much everything you’re familiar with at CppCon except moved online: multiple tracks including “back to basics” and a new “embedded” track; live speaker Q&A; live talk time zones friendly to Americas and EMEA (and we’re going to try to arrange around-the-clock recorded repeats in all time zones, where speakers who are available can be available for live Q&A in their repeated talks too, and we’ll do that if it’s possible – but we’re still working on it!); virtual tables where you can interact face-to-face online with other attendees just like at the physical event; virtual exhibitor spaces where you can meet the folks on your favorite product’s teams to ask them question face-to-face; pre- and post-conference classes; and even the CppCon house band playing live before every plenary session. All talk recordings will be freely available as usual on YouTube a month or two after the event, but everything else above will be available only live during CppCon week.
To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, here’s another of the top-rated talks from last year. Enjoy – and register today for CppCon 2020 – all the spirit and flavor of CppCon, this year all virtual and online!
A State of Compile Time Regular Expressions
by Hana Dusíková
Summary of the talk:
In this talk I will present an advancement on the Compile Time Regular Expression (CTRE) library. The library was designed with new C++20 features, and it uses novel techniques. This presentation independently sums up the work since my previous CppCon talk about the library.
The primary topic of this talk will be an explanation of the new Deterministic Finite Automaton (DFA) engine in the library and how it's built and optimised during compilation. I will explain the differences and limitations of the new engine in comparison to the previous Back Tracking engine. I will address these differences with a benchmark and I will discuss the generated assembly.
Even if you are not interested in regular expressions, you will learn new techniques in compile-time meta-programming and see new C++20 features in action.
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 11, 2020 01:20 PM | Tags: community
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Microsoft C++ Team at CppCon 2020
by Will Buik
From the article:
The Microsoft C++ team has an exciting lineup of sessions at CppCon 2020. Many of us will also be present at our team’s booth in the virtual exhibition hall throughout the conference. Come say hi and let us know if you have any questions about our talks, products, or anything else! We’ll be making a few exciting announcements about Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code...
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 11, 2020 01:19 PM | Tags: community
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Instructor Interview: Andreas Fertig / When Efficiency Matters
From the article:
In this instructor interview, Kevin Carpenter welcomes Andreas Fertig for a discussion of his CppCon Academy class, Modern C++: When Efficiency Matters. This is Andreas’ first time at CppCon...
By Meeting C++ | Sep 11, 2020 03:18 AM | Tags: meetingcpp event conference community
Some details and backgrounds on how the online events like CppCon and Meeting C++ 2020/online work
A few details and thoughts on online events like Meeting C++ online
by Jens Weller
From the article:
A few weeks ago I announced Meeting C++ online, and now the first two online events have happend. Now I'd like to share a bit more details with you.
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 9, 2020 02:00 PM | Tags: community
This year, CppCon 2020 is going virtual. The dates are still the same – September 14-18 – and we are aiming for the CppCon live event to have pretty much everything you’re familiar with at CppCon except moved online: multiple tracks including “back to basics” and a new “embedded” track; live speaker Q&A; live talk time zones friendly to Americas and EMEA (and we’re going to try to arrange around-the-clock recorded repeats in all time zones, where speakers who are available can be available for live Q&A in their repeated talks too, and we’ll do that if it’s possible – but we’re still working on it!); virtual tables where you can interact face-to-face online with other attendees just like at the physical event; virtual exhibitor spaces where you can meet the folks on your favorite product’s teams to ask them question face-to-face; pre- and post-conference classes; and even the CppCon house band playing live before every plenary session. All talk recordings will be freely available as usual on YouTube a month or two after the event, but everything else above will be available only live during CppCon week.
To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, here’s another of the top-rated talks from last year. Enjoy – and register today for CppCon 2020 – all the spirit and flavor of CppCon, this year all virtual and online!
This Videogame Programmer Used the STL and You Will Never Guess What Happened Next
by Mathieu Ropert
Summary of the talk:
The STL is sometimes seen as a strange and dangerous beast, especially in the game development industry.
There is talk about performance concerns, strange behaviours, interminable compilations and weird decisions by a mysterious "committee".
Is there any truth to it? Is it all a misconception?I have been using the STL in a production videogame that is mostly CPU bound and in this talk we will unveil the truth behind the rumours.
We will start by a discussion about the most common criticism against the STL and its idioms made by the gamedev community.
Then we will see a few practical examples through STL containers, explaining where they can do the job, where they might be lacking and what alternatives can be used.
Finally we will conclude with some ideas on how we can improve both the STL for game developers and also how to foster better discussion on the topic in the future.At the end of this talk, attendees should have a solid understanding of why the STL is sometimes frowned upon, when it makes sense to look for alternatives to the standard and most importantly when it does not.
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 9, 2020 01:59 PM | Tags: community
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CppCon 2020 Keynote: Performance Matters by Emery Berger
From the article:
Emery Berger is a Professor in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he co-directs the PLASMA @ UMass lab. To fully appreciate the work that Emery as done and the academic honors that he’s received, you really need to read his bio...
By Adrien Hamelin | Sep 9, 2020 01:57 PM | Tags: community
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CppCon 2020 Keynote: Neighborhoods Banding Together by Lisa Lippincott
From the article:
Lisa Lippincott designed the software architectures of Tanium and BigFix, two systems for managing large fleets of computers. She is chair of the numerics study group of the C++ standardization committee...