Highlighting the student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2024

By Meeting C++ | Oct 1, 2024 03:38 AM | Tags: meetingcpp community

Meeting C++ offers free online and onsite tickets through their student and support programs. This is supported through the ticket sales for Meeting C++ 2024.

Highlighting the student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2024

by Jens Weller

From the article:

Like every year, I'd like to point towards the programs for those that can't afford to pay for a ticket for Meeting C++ 2024.

And let me start with thanking those that enable these programs through their ticket buying: the attendees and sponsors of Meeting C++ 2024! With the schedule published, I'd like to highlight the student and support tickets for Meeting C++ 2024. For a few years now Meeting C++ has hosted programs to give students, underrepresented folks and those who can't afford a ticket access to the conference.

This year for the first time you can choose to register either for onsite or online for these programs. A limited amount of tickets for Berlin will be available, depending on the ticket sale in October. So incase you registered for onsite but are not chosen for a ticket, then you'll have a chance to an online ticket...

Trip report: C++ On Sea 2024 -- Sandor Dargo

By Blog Staff | Sep 30, 2024 03:10 PM | Tags: None

C++ On Sea took place in Folkestone again in February this year. Sandor Dargo shares an overview of his favourite talks and some emergent ideas.

Trip report: C++ On Sea 2024

by Sandor Dargo

From the article:

Last week, between the 3rd and 5th of July, I had the privilege of attending and presenting at C++ on Sea 2024 [CPPoS-1] for the 5th time in a row! I’m grateful that the organizers accepted me not simply as a speaker, but that they granted me a double slot to deliver a half-day workshop about how to reduce the size of a binary. I’m also thankful for my management that they gave me the time to go to Folkestone and share our knowledge on binary size. Last but not least, great thanks goes to my wife, who took care of the kids alone that week.

Let me share with you a few thoughts about the conference.

First, I’m going to write about the 3 talks that I liked the most during the 3 days, then I’m going to share 3 interesting ideas I heard about and then I’m going to share some personal impressions about the conference.

IoT Development with POCO C++ libraries and macchinaio

By Meeting C++ | Sep 28, 2024 06:44 AM | Tags: poco meetingcpp iot embedded community

Recently Günter Obiltschnig from the POCO Project gave a talk about IoT Development with POCO C++ libraries and macchinaio at a by macchina.io sponsored Meetup of Meeting C++ online.

IoT Development with POCO C++ libraries and macchinaio

by Günter Obiltschnig

Chapter Videos:

POCO C++ Libraries overview

Macchina.io overview

Projects using POCO C++ Libaries and macchina.io in the real world

Q&A with Günter Obiltschnig after the talk

In an Atomic World -- Lucian Radu Teodorescu

By Blog Staff | Sep 26, 2024 03:06 PM | Tags: None

Atomics form a relatively low level, but fundamental part of sharing data across threads. Lucian Radu Teodorescu reminds us what atomics are and how and when to use them.

In an Atomic World

by Lucian Radu Teodorescu

From the article:

We often discuss mutexes as the basic building blocks of concurrency. However, there are more fundamental concepts upon which concurrent programs and synchronization primitives are constructed. The C++ language defines a memory model, which describes how programs behave when multiple threads are involved. Additionally, C++ introduces atomic operations that serve as foundation for working with data across threads, ensuring both safety and performance. The goal of C++ atomics is to closely align with the hardware and eliminate the need for lower-level operations that must work across threads.

The topic of atomics is often overlooked, and the prevailing advice is to avoid them. While this advice is generally sound, there are occasions when we need to use atomics to fully leverage the language’s capabilities. This article aims to give atomics the attention they deserve, as they have yet to be featured in an Overload article.

The subject of atomics is extensive. For a comprehensive exploration, readers are encouraged to consult books by Anthony Williams [Williams19] and Mara Bos [Bos23]. While the Bos book primarily focuses on Rust, there is still much to be learned about atomics for C++ programmers. The reader can also consider cppreference.com for a quick reference to the atomics library [cppreference-1] In this article, we will examine various memory ordering models and illustrate their usage through simplified practical examples.

2024-09 Mailing Available

By Administrator | Sep 25, 2024 09:33 PM | Tags: None

The 2024-09 mailing of new standards papers is now available.

Meeting C++ 2024: the online track is complete

By Meeting C++ | Sep 25, 2024 05:35 AM | Tags: meetingcpp events conference community

The last part of the program for Meeting C++ 2024 is now ready: the online track.

The online track for Meeting C++ 2024 is complete!

by Jens Weller

From the article:

With this the program for Meeting C++ 2024 is now complete! The online track features 11 talks and will be prerecorded publically in October.

The talks of the online track are:

• An Introduction to Vulkan and C++ by Michael Shah
• From C to Modern C++: Transforming the classroom and beyond by Gabriel Valenzuela
• Writing VSCode extensions for fun an profit by Nikolaj Fogh
• Python's asyncio in C++ for Terminal Graphics by Fernando Iglesias
• Mimicking SQL: API Design Choices by Jonathan O'Connor
• What is a static function, but isn't a static function? by Miloš Anđelković
• Customising clang-tidy to modernise your legacy C++ code by Mike Crowe
• Parallel Algorithms, Ranges and oneDPL by Abhilash Majumder
• An overview on the C++26 highlights by Rainer Grimm
• Starting a modern C++ Project with CMake in 2024 by Jens Weller
• A tour through the Meeting C++ community survey by Jens Weller

Temporarily Dropping a Lock: The Anti-lock Pattern -- Raymond Chen

By Blog Staff | Sep 24, 2024 02:43 PM | Tags: None

In C++, it's common to use RAII types like std::lock_guard to manage synchronization primitives, ensuring a lock is acquired at object creation and released at destruction. However, a less common but useful pattern is the "anti-lock," which temporarily releases a lock and reacquires it later, useful in scenarios where you need to drop a lock while performing certain operations, like calling out to other components to avoid deadlocks.

Temporarily Dropping a Lock: The Anti-lock Pattern

by Raymond Chen

From the article:

There is a common pattern in C++ of using an RAII type to manage a synchronization primitive. There are different versions of this, but they all have the same basic pattern:

• Creating the object from a synchronization object: Locks the synchronization object.
• Destructing the object: Unlocks the synchronization object.

These types go by various names, like std::lock_guard, std::unique_lock, or std::coped_lock, and specific libraries may have versions for their own types, such as C++/WinRT’s winrt::slim_lock_guard and WIL’s wil::rwlock_release_exclusive_scope_exit (which you thankfully never actually write out; just use auto).

One thing that is missing from most standard libraries, however, is the anti-lock.

The idea of the anti-lock is that it counteracts an active lock.

CopperSpice: Template Design With Policy Classes

By Ansel Sermersheim | Sep 24, 2024 01:20 PM | Tags: None

New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

Template Design With Policy Classes

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

We have a new C++ video which discusses Policy Based Design and compares it to other styles of programming. Do you know which design pattern policy based programming solves? Have you considered the benefits of a design which provides a solution at compile time versus run time? Are you using policies and maybe you had no idea they had a name?

Please take a look and remember to subscribe.

Reflection-based JSON in C++ at Gigabytes per Second -- Daniel Lemire

By Blog Staff | Sep 20, 2024 02:27 PM | Tags: None

JSON is a widely-used format for data exchange, but in C++, handling JSON efficiently can be challenging. While current solutions like simdjson offer high-speed processing, upcoming features in C++26, such as powerful reflection, promise to simplify and accelerate the serialization and deserialization of JSON, making it both faster and more convenient for developers.

Reflection-based JSON in C++ at Gigabytes per Second

by Daniel Lemire

From the article:

JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) is a popular format for storing and transmitting data. It uses human-readable text to represent structured data in the form of attribute–value pairs and arrays. E.g., {"age":5, "name":"Daniel", toys:["wooden dog", "little car"]}. Ingesting and producing JSON documents can be a performance bottleneck. Thankfully, a few JSON parsers such as simdjson have shown that we can process JSON at high speeds, reaching gigabytes per second.

However, producing and ingesting JSON data can remain a chore in C++. The programmer often needs to address potential errors such as unexpected content.

Yet, often, the programmer only needs to map the content to and from a native C/C++ data structure.

User-Defined Formatting in std::format – Part 3 -- Spencer Collyer

By Blog Staff | Sep 17, 2024 02:11 PM | Tags: None

We’ve seen formatting for simple classes and more complicated types. Spencer Collyer finishes his series by showing us how to apply specific formatting to existing classes.

User-Defined Formatting in std::format – Part 3

by Spencer Collyer

From the article:

In the previous articles in this series [Collyer24a], [Collyer24b] I showed how to write classes to format user-defined classes and container classes using the std::format library.

In this article I will show you how to create format wrappers, special purpose classes that allow you to apply specific formatting to objects of existing classes.

A note on the code listings: The code listings in this article have lines labelled with comments like // 1. Where these lines are referred to in the text of this article it will be as ‘line 1’ for instance, rather than ‘the line labelled // 1’.

Format wrappers

I’d now like to introduce a type of class which I call ‘format wrappers’. A format wrapper is a very simple class which wraps a value of another type. They exist purely so that we can define a formatter for the format wrapper. The idea is that the formatter will then output the wrapped value using a specific set of formatting rules. Hopefully this will become clearer when we discuss the Quoted format wrapper later.

A format wrapper is a very simple class, which normally consists of just a constructor taking an object of the wrapped type, and a public member variable holding a copy or reference to that value. They are intended to be used in the argument list of one of std::format’s formatting functions, purely as a way to select the correct formatter.