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By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 9, 2018 02:54 PM | Tags: community c++11
What's your opinion?
East End Functions
by Phil Nash
From the article:
There has been a recent stirring of attention, in the C++ community, for the practice of always placing the const modifier to the right of the thing it modifies. The practice has even been gifted a catchy name: East Const (which, I think, is what has stirred up the interest)...
By Jon Kalb | Apr 9, 2018 11:11 AM | Tags: None
New blog post on SlashSlash.info on how to come up with ideas for C++ talks
Developing Talk Ideas
From the post:
...the insight that I’m sharing is that the best way to develop presentation ideas is to be engaged with the community. The ideas that are exciting the rest of the community are going to spark something in you as well.
By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 6, 2018 01:56 PM | Tags: intermediate
Very interesting!
Getting the Benefits of Strong Typing in C++ at a Fraction of the Cost
by Vincent Zalzal
From the article:
Strong types promote safer and more expressive code. I won’t repeat what Jonathan has presented already in his series on strong types.
I suspect some people may find that the NamedType class template has a nice interface but is using a somewhat heavy machinery to achieve the modest goal of strong typing. For those people, I have good news: you can achieve many of the functionalities of NamedType, with a very simple tool. That tool is the humble struct...
By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 6, 2018 01:54 PM | Tags: community c++17
Interested?
“Professional C++, 4th Edition” Released
by Marc Gregoire
From the article:
It has been a lot of work, but I’m proud to announce my fourth edition of “Professional C++” ��
By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 6, 2018 01:52 PM | Tags: intermediate
They will stay hidden.
Raw Pointers Are Gonna Stay!
by Arne Mertz
From the article:
Contrary to Sunday’s orchestrated April Fool’s posts, raw pointers are not going anywhere. However, there are some things in those posts that are based on reality. I’ll go into a few of them today...
By Adam Badura | Apr 5, 2018 11:34 PM | Tags: None
code::dive 2018 will be held in Wrocław (Poland), November 7-8, 2018.
Announcing code::dive 2018
by Adam Badura
From the article:
code::dive 2018, the fifth edition, will be held in Wrocław (Poland) on November 7-8, 2018.
Call for Papers is open until end of June 2018 -- register on the webpage.
By Jon Kalb | Apr 5, 2018 07:30 PM | Tags: undefined behavior optimizations c++now
C++Now 2018 will be held in Aspen, May 6–11, 2018.
Closing Keynote Announced: John Regehr on Undefined Behavior and Compiler Optimizations
From the announcement:
John is a professor of computer science at the University of Utah, where his research group creates tools for making software more efficient and correct. One of his projects is Csmith, a tool that generates random C programs. Why? To test compilers, of course. Csmith has been used to find more than 500 previously unknown bugs in production-quality compilers.John will share some of the insights he’s gained from his research into compilers.
He will discuss what undefined behavior means to the compiler and how compiler writers use it in surprising ways generate better code.
By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 5, 2018 02:20 PM | Tags: performance
Part 2!
Parallel Coding: From 90x Performance Loss To 2x Improvement
by "No Bugs" Hare
From the article:
In my previous post, we have observed pretty bad results for calculations as we tried to use mutexes and even atomics to do things parallel. OTOH, it was promised to show how parallel <algorithm> CAN be used both correctly and efficiently (that is, IF you need it, which is a separate question); this is what we’ll start discussing within this post...
By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 5, 2018 02:05 PM | Tags: intermediate
Quick A: It only need to take the address.
Recently on SO:
Why does unary operator & not require a complete type?
What if stru has overloaded operator&()?
Then it is unspecified whether the overload will be called (See Oliv's comment for standard quote).
How could unary operator & does not require a complete type?
That's how the standard has defined the language. The built-in address-of operator doesn't need to know the definition of the type, since that has no effect on where to get the address of the object.
One consideration for why it is a good thing: Compatibility with C.
By Adrien Hamelin | Apr 5, 2018 02:04 PM | Tags: experimental community
Lots of things happened.
Trip report: Winter ISO C++ standards meeting (Jacksonville)
by Herb Sutter
From the article:
On Saturday March 17, the ISO C++ committee completed its winter meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, USA, hosted with thanks by the Standard C++ Foundation and Perennial. We had some 140 people at the meeting, representing 8 national bodies. As usual, we met for six days Monday through Saturday, including all evenings...