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Pimpl vs Abstract Interface - a practical tutorial -- Bartlomiej Filipek

By bfilipek | Jan 17, 2018 12:56 PM | Tags: None

In the article we describe how to limit compilation dependencies. Two methods are discussed: pimpl approach and via abstract interfaces

Pimpl vs Abstract Interface - a practical tutorial

by Bartlomiej Filipek

From the article:

In the post I covered the pimpl pattern. I discussed the basic structure, extensions, pros and cons and alternatives. Still, the post might sound a bit “theoretical”. Today I’d like to describe a practical usage of the pattern. Rather than inventing artificial names like MyClass and MyClassImpl you’ll see something more realistic: like FileCompressor or ICompressionMethod.

Spectre mitigations in MSVC--Andrew Pardoe

By Marco Arena | Jan 16, 2018 12:43 AM | Tags: visual studio

If you are a developer whose code operates on data that crosses a trust boundary then you should consider recompiling your code with the /Qspectre switch:

Spectre mitigations in MSVC

by Andrew Pardoe

From the article:

Microsoft is aware of a new publicly disclosed class of vulnerabilities, called “speculative execution side-channel attacks,” that affect many operating systems and modern processors, including processors from Intel, AMD, and ARM...

CopperSpice: Templates and Open Source

By Ansel Sermersheim | Jan 15, 2018 01:16 PM | Tags: None

New videos on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:

C++ Templates in the real world

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

Template techniques for accomplishing real world tasks in C++, including some not taught in textbooks. We also present an example of avoiding circular dependencies in template definitions.

Copyright Copyleft

by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim

About the video:

A practical and acessible look at some common open source licenses. If you write, read, or use software this is important material.

Please take a look and remember to subscribe!

Slides of the 9th of January 2018 BeCPP Meeting -- Marc Gregoire

By Marc Gregoire | Jan 15, 2018 11:58 AM | Tags: community boost

BeCPP_Logo_282x64.pngOn January 9th 2018, the Belgian C++ Users Group had their next event sponsored by Barco.

Slides of the 9th of January 2018 BeCPP Meeting

About the event:

This was our users group biggest event ever. We had around 140 attendees!
Here are the presentations:

  • "Threads are evil" (Frederik Vannoote)
  • "Legacy code refactoring case" (Roeland Van Lembergen)
  • "Boost.Asio C++ (Network) Programming" (Lieven de Cock)

If you couldn’t attend the event in person, or if you would like to go over the material again, you can download them from the BeCPP website.

CppCast Episode 133: Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt

By robwirving | Jan 12, 2018 07:59 AM | Tags: None

Episode 133 of CppCast the only podcast for C++ developers by C++ developers. In this episode Rob and Jason are joined by Matt Godbolt to talk about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities and how they affect C++ Programmers.

CppCast Episode 133: Meltdown and Spectre with Matt Godbolt

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

About the interviewee:

Matt is a developer at trading firm DRW. Before that he's worked at Google, run a C++ tools company, and spent over a decade in the games industry making PC and console games. He is fascinated by performance and created Compiler Explorer, to help understand how C++ code ends up looking to the processor. When not performance tuning C++ code he enjoys writing emulators for 8-bit computers in Javascript.