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By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 26, 2019 10:45 AM | Tags: community
The series continues.
Expressing fire-and-forget coroutines more explicitly, -or- How to turn any coroutine into fire-and-forget
by Raymond Chen
From the article:
Last time, we looked at how to mark a coroutine as fire-and-forget, meaning that the caller does not get any information about when the coroutine completes. This is fine as far as it goes, but it may not be what you want...
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 26, 2019 10:39 AM | Tags: community
Heard about it?
winrt::fire_and_forget was too forgetful
by Raymond Chen
From the article:
C++/WinRT provides a handy helper class called winrt::fire_and_forget. It lets you specify that nobody is going to observe the result of the coroutine. This is handy because it lets you tell the compiler that the lack of observation is intentional, so it won’t generate a warning...
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 21, 2019 12:03 PM | Tags: performance community
Getting better!
Game performance and compilation time improvements in Visual Studio 2019
by Gratian Lup
From the article:
The C++ compiler in Visual Studio 2019 includes several new optimizations and improvements geared towards increasing the performance of games and making game developers more productive by reducing the compilation time of large projects. Although the focus of this blog post is on the game industry, these improvements apply to most C++ applications and C++ developers...
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 18, 2019 10:56 AM | Tags: community
In detail.
Understanding GCC warnings
by Martin Sebor
From the article:
Most of us appreciate when our compiler lets us know we made a mistake. Finding coding errors early lets us correct them before they embarrass us in a code review or, worse, turn into bugs that impact our customers. Besides the compulsory errors, many projects enable additional diagnostics by using the -Wall and -Wextra command-line options. For this reason, some projects even turn them into errors via -Werror as their first line of defense. But not every instance of a warning necessarily means the code is buggy. Conversely, the absence of warnings for a piece of code is no guarantee that there are no bugs lurking in it...
By James | Mar 13, 2019 01:30 PM | Tags: None
We are happy to inform you that CppDepend v2019.1 has been released and is now available for download! CppDepend allows architects and developers to analyze C and C++ code base, customizing your own coding rules, and facilitate refactoring and migration.
CppDepend v2019.1
by CppDepend
About the release:
includes important updates:
- Misra C++ standard checks: CppDepend 2019.1 provides now out of the box 90 MISRA guidelines to facilitate code safety, security, portability, and reliability.
- Plugins execution optimization: in order to get the CppDepend results quickly, the execution of the plugins are now executed in asynchronous mode. Their results will be loaded as soon as the analysis is done.
- Clang Tidy customization: The Clang tidy tool checks against many standards and guidelines which makes it very slow, To optimize its execution you can now change its command line arguments to check only what you want as guidelines.
- (Improvement) Many bug fixes and improvements including SonarQube 7.6 compatibility.
Download and enjoy the new version of CppDepend now by clicking here.
By Adrien Hamelin | Mar 5, 2019 01:10 PM | Tags: experimental community
The future.
Formatting user-defined types with {fmt} library
by Wojtek Gumuła
From the article:
C++ has two standardized ways of printing formatted text out already: printf-family functions inherited from C and I/O streams abstraction built on operator<<. Streams are considered more modern, providing type-safety and extensibility functionalities. However, printf have some notable advantages, too — at the cost of lost type-safety, user can use an interface that looks familiar to almost all developers, allowing for some ways of localization and more readable syntax. And then, there is {fmt} — yet another text formatting library, inspired by design already available in languages like Python and Rust...
By Jordi Mon Companys | Mar 3, 2019 08:52 AM | Tags: community
Diego Rodríguez-Losada is interviewed about Conan.io
Package management in C++
by Andrew Nesbitt and Alex Pounds
Though a bit outdated because it was recorded 9 months ago, still or, in fact, more than valid knowledge about tooling in C++. From the excerpt: We talk about what inspired the development of Conan, package management problems specific to C/C++ package management and the plans for the future.
By Meeting C++ | Feb 28, 2019 07:35 AM | Tags: tmp templates meetingcpp intermediate c++17 basics
A little different angle on TMP presents Jonathan O'Connor
Alices adventures in Template Land
by Jonathan O'Connor
By Hartmut Kaiser | Feb 20, 2019 06:21 AM | Tags: performance parallelism heterogeneous computing distributed computing c++17 c++14 c++11
The STE||AR Group has released V1.2.1 of HPX -- A C++ Standard library for parallelism and concurrency.
HPX V1.2.1 Released
The newest version of HPX (V1.2.1) is now available for download! Please see here for the release notes. This release is a pure bug fix release that addresses a couple of compatibility problems (in particular with Boost V1.69). We have also included some important improvements that were merged since the previous release.
HPX is a general purpose parallel C++ runtime system for applications of any scale. It implements all of the related facilities as defined by the C++ Standard. As of this writing, HPX provides the only widely available open-source implementation of the new C++17 parallel algorithms. Additionally, HPX implements functionalities proposed as part of the ongoing C++ standardization process, such as large parts of the C++ Concurrency TS, Parallelism TS V2, data-parallel algorithms, executors, and many more. It also extends the existing C++ Standard APIs to the distributed case (e.g. compute clusters) and for heterogeneous systems (e.g. GPUs).
HPX seamlessly enables a new Asynchronous C++ Standard Programming Model that tends to improve the parallel efficiency of our applications and helps reducing complexities usually associated with parellism and concurrency.
By Adrien Hamelin | Feb 11, 2019 12:59 PM | Tags: community
It can do it.
Using VS Code for C++ development with containers
by Marc Goodner
From the article:
This post builds on using multi-stage containers for C++ development. That post showed how to use a single Dockerfile to describe a build stage and a deployment stage resulting in a container optimized for deployment. It did not show you how to use a containers with your development environment. Here we will show how to use those containers with VS Code. The source for this article is the same as that of the previous article: the findfaces GitHub repo...