October 25, Pavia, Italy
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 22, 2019 11:07 AM | Tags: community
Don't miss it out.
CppCon Advice
From the article:
Hello all, I've been programming in C++ for about 5 years now, 4 years in a university setting and 1 at my current employer. Recently, I put in a request to attend CppCon and it was accepted, which I'm thrilled about...
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 22, 2019 11:05 AM | Tags: community
Will you be there?
CppCon 2019 Class, Presentation and Book Signing
by Anthony Williams
From the article:
It is now less than a month to this year's CppCon, which is going to be in Aurora, Colorado, USA for the first time this year, in a change from Bellevue where it has been for the last few years...
By Meeting C++ | Aug 21, 2019 08:24 AM | Tags: meetingcpp event conference community c++20 c++17
The details for this years Meeting C++ conference are available:
Talks and Speakers of Meeting C++ 2019 are online!
by Jens Weller
From the article:
The details of the talks and speakers for Meeting C++ 2019 are now online.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 20, 2019 10:41 AM | Tags: performance community
We’re in the final countdown to this year’s CppCon, which starts on September 16. 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 2019!
OOP Is Dead, Long Live Data-oriented Design
by Stoyan Nikolov
Summary of the talk:
For decades C++ developers have built software around OOP concepts that ultimately failed us - we didn’t see the promises of code reuse, maintenance or simplicity fulfilled, and performance suffers significantly. Data-oriented design can be a better paradigm in fields where C++ is most important - game development, high-performance computing, and real-time systems.
The talk will briefly introduce data-oriented design and focus on practical real-world examples of applying DoD where previously OOP constructs were widely employed.
Examples will be shown from modern web browsers. They are overwhelmingly written in C++ with OOP - that’s why most of them are slow memory hogs. In the talk I’ll draw parallels between the design of systems in Chrome and their counterparts in the HTML renderer Hummingbird. As we’ll see, Hummingbird is multiple times faster because it ditches OOP for good in all performance-critical areas.
We will see how real-world C++ OOP systems can be re-designed in a C++ data-oriented way for better performance, scalability, maintainability and testability.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 20, 2019 10:40 AM | Tags: community
Interested?
“C++17 Standard Library Quick Reference” Now Available
by Marc Gregoire
From the article:
Together with Peter Van Weert, we finished our new book titled “C++17 Standard Library Quick Reference”. It’s published by Apress...
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 20, 2019 10:35 AM | Tags: community
The series continue.
Making C++ Pipes Compatible with STL Algorithms
by Jonathan Boccara
From the article:
As we saw in the previous post, the Smart output iterators are now called Pipes...
By Ansel Sermersheim | Aug 19, 2019 10:00 AM | Tags: None
New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:
Lambdas in Action
by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim
About the video:
In this video, we discuss lambda expressions in detail and provide precise definitions of similar sounding terms like functor, function object, function pointer, and std::function. By explaining some real examples from our production code, we show how lambda expressions can be used to simplify complex operations by providing encapsulation for the implementation of a callback.
Please take a look and remember to subscribe!
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 19, 2019 09:54 AM | Tags: None
We’re in the final countdown to this year’s CppCon, which starts on September 16. 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 2019!
Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming (the future is here)
by Bjarne Stroustrup
Summary of the talk:
Concepts have arrived. They will change the way we think about programming. Implementations are available in GCC and Clang. Many fundamental concepts are in the standard committee’s working paper and the next generation of the STL depends critically on concepts.
After briefly introducing concepts, I consider their role in design. What makes a good/useful concept? How do you design good concepts and use them well?
From a language-technical point of view, concepts are a way of constraining template arguments. From a design perspective, they are a focus comparable to user-defined types (classes): The intent is for a concept to represent a fundamental concept in an applications domain (hence the name “concept”).
I will mention technical issues recently resolved or currently being resolved in the committee, but my primarily focus is not concepts as a language mechanism but as a support for the development of good software.
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 19, 2019 09:49 AM | Tags: community
New stuff is not bad stuff.
Remember the Vasa! or, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose
by Ben Deane
From the article:
I’ve been programming in C++ for almost a quarter of a century now. I grew up, professionally, with C++, and in many ways, it grew up along with me...
By Adrien Hamelin | Aug 19, 2019 09:46 AM | Tags: community
ACCU’s Overload journal of August 2019 is out. It contains the following C++ related articles.
Overload 152 is now available
From the journal:
Reactive or Proactive.
Reactive systems are all the rage. Frances Buontempo compares them with a proactive approach.A Low-Latency Logging Framework.
Logging can be a bottleneck in systems. Wesley Maness and Richard Reich demonstrate a low-latency logging framework that avoids common problems.Empty Scoped Enums as Strong Aliases for Integral Types.
Scoped enums have many advantages. Lukas Böger demonstrates their use as strong types of numbers.C++ Reflection for Python Binding.
There are various approaches to generating Python bindings in C++. Russell Standish shows how Classdesc can be used to achieve this.Trip Report: Italian C++ 2019.
Milan held Italy’s largest C++ conference. Hans Vredeveld reports back.Afterwood.
Many people are risk-averse. Chris Oldwood considers this position – in verse.