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By Blog Staff | Nov 16, 2022 07:27 PM | Tags: None
When having the "last word" makes stuff go faster...
Using final in C++ to improve performance
by Niall Cooling
From the article:
The
finalspecifier was introduced in C++11 to ensure that either a class or a virtual function cannot be further overridden. However, as we shall investigate, this also allows them to perform an optimization known as devirtualization, improving runtime performance.
By Blog Staff | Nov 12, 2022 06:01 PM | Tags: None
As Crocodile Dundee famously said, "That's not a loop, that's a loop." Just programmers having fun:
For Software Performance, the Way Data is Accessed Matters!
by Ivica Bogosavljević
From the article:
In our experiments with the memory access pattern, we have seen that good data locality is a key to good software performance. Accessing memory sequentially and splitting the data set into small-sized pieces which are processed individually improves data locality and software speed.
In this post, we will present a few techniques to improve the memory access pattern and increase data locality. The advantage of this approach is that the changes are localized in the algorithm itself, i.e. there is no need to change the data layout or the memory layout. The disadvantage is that the algorithms often become more difficult to understand and modify. ...
[... and deep inside the article ...]
Notice that, because the whole cache line is brought from the memory to the data cache, after accessing a[j][i] we can access a[j][i + 1]cheaply, since these two pieces of data belong to the same cache line. The problem in our case is that if n is large, access to a[j][i + 1] will come much after a[j][i] and by that time a[j][i + 1] will be evicted from the data cache. ...
By Blog Staff | Nov 12, 2022 02:48 PM | Tags: None
This fiscal year FY2022 from 2021-07-01 to 2022-06-30 was our second full year in the pandemic. Although most of the Foundation’s work is done virtually, the pandemic did affect some of our prominent operations, including that CppCon 2021 was held, but was hybrid for the first time.
As in every recent year, the majority of funds received and spent in FY2022 were from running CppCon, which still had large expenses even though it was hybrid with mostly-online attendees in FY2022.
Every year, the Foundation runs the CppCon conference, which is currently the largest C++ conference in the world. Since its inception in 2014, a goal for CppCon has been to help raise the bar for all C++ sister conferences. In our inaugural conference in 2014, we were the first C++ conference we know of to professionally record all talks and panels using a paid film crew, and make the videos available for free to everyone in the world; since then, several other conferences have followed suit, including that some have used the same video production company CppCon uses (Bash Films, which we can highly recommend). In each year since, we have continued to strive to add features, most recently professional in-room live captioning in 2019.
In our prior year, FY2021, CppCon was held virtually in September 2020 due to the pandemic; no in-person event was possible.
In FY2022, CppCon was held in October 2021. We were glad to be able to resume partial in-person attendance, but there continued to be government travel restrictions including a U.S. ban on travelers from other countries, and so most of our attendees were on-line. CppCon 2021 was our first-ever hybrid conference, and was only possible thanks to the tireless efforts by the conference organizers and volunteers to figure out how to make an on-site and on-line CppCon work, and make it feel as much like a single conference as possible. We reached a new record attendance, though most of the attendees were on-line elsewhere in the world.
Although CppCon 2022 falls beyond FY2022, we include it here because many of the preparations and expenditures happened before the end of FY2022, and because this report is after CppCon 2022 so we have the information: CppCon 2022 was held in September 2022. It was again a hybrid conference, and although international governmental travel bans were largely (but not wholly) lifted, many companies still had travel restrictions in place due to Covid and/or the economic slowdown. Even so, CppCon 2022 squeaked out a new record in total attendance, with a much larger percentage of attendees returning on-site… for the first time since 2019, the exhibitor hall often felt crowded and the on-site experience felt like a normal bustling conference again!
The professionally recorded C++ videos are made available worldwide at no charge on the CppCon YouTube channel. Here are some basic channel statistics (with diffs since the last annual report for FY2021, which was published in March 2022):
Our next annual report will cover the fiscal year from 2022-07-01 to 2023-06-30. The annual report will first be given as usual as a live presentation at our annual Foundation members meeting which is held during the week of the autumn WG21 meeting, which is expected to be in November in 2023. Thereafter it will be put into written form and posted online.
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By Blog Staff | Nov 12, 2022 02:30 PM | Tags: None
On November 15, Bjarne Stroustrup will be giving a live talk available via YouTube:
What is good C++ Code?
by Bjarne Stroustrup
live online via YouTube
November 15, at 19:00 UTC+3
By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2022 11:35 AM | Tags: None
Playing the classics...
The Facade Pattern
by Rainer Grimm
From the article:
The key idea of the Facade Pattern is to provide a simplified interface to a complex system...
The Facade Pattern is an ideal starting point for decoupling complex systems by introducing layers. Additionally, it can be used as a starting point for deprecating the old interface.
Here are the facts. ...
By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2022 11:31 AM | Tags: None
How can I construct thee? Let me count the ways...
Overview of C++ Variable Initialiation
by Christian Aichinger
From the article:
C++ variable initialization is quite complex, with several distinct categories that differ in behavior. The following list attempts to make sense of it. ...
By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2022 11:25 AM | Tags: None
Visual Studio 2022 17.4 is available:
What's New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 17.4
by Sy Brand
From the article:
We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 is now generally available! This post summarizes the new features you can find in this release for C++. ...
By Blog Staff | Nov 11, 2022 11:19 AM | Tags: None
Tick, tock...
Improving my C++ time queue
by Marius Elvert
From the article:
Another code snippet that can be found in a few of my projects is the “time queue”, which is a simple ‘priority queue’ style data structure that I use to defer actions to a later time. ...
By Ansel Sermersheim | Nov 8, 2022 11:45 AM | Tags: None
New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:
Comparison Operators: Breaking Change in C++20
by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim
About the video:
C++20 added a feature for the compiler to auto generate comparison operators which is often referred to as the spaceship operator. We found a way this can break existing code when supplying your own comparison functions. Watch our video to find out how this can happen in your existing code which has never used the spaceship operator before.
Please take a look and remember to subscribe!
By Jordi Mon Companys | Nov 1, 2022 11:43 AM | Tags: None
FOSSA was founded to provide the most relevant and real-time end-to-end governance for all third-party code. They now announce the general availability of C and C++ Security and License Scanning
Announcing the GA of C and C++ Security and License Scanning
By Gauthami Polasani
From the article:
Unlike other C/C++ scanning tools, FOSSA does not take a one-solution-fits-all approach to dependency identification in such a complex and layered ecosystem. FOSSA uses multi-pronged strategies (as described below) to accurately identify dependencies and surface security and license risks — regardless of how the code is included.).