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CppCon 2024 C++ Under the Hood: Internal Class Mechanisms -- Chris Ryan

By Blog Staff | May 28, 2025 12:41 PM | Tags: None

Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 15 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2025!

C++ Under the Hood: Internal Class Mechanisms

by Chris Ryan

Summary of the talk:

My talk will examine the internal C++ mechanisms around the topics of:

The C++ onion as it relates to construction, destruction and polymorphism,

Order of Object construction & destruction, and pre- & post-main() processing.

Member Function Pointers (not your father’s C function pointer),

Member Data Pointers (not raw pointers) (data-morphic functionality),

Understanding the Call Stack, Stack Frames and Base Pointer mechanisms.

CppCon 2024 Peering Forward - C++’s Next Decade -- Herb Sutter

By Blog Staff | May 26, 2025 12:37 PM | Tags: None

Peering Forward - C++’s Next Decade

by Herb Sutter

Summary of the talk:

This is an exciting year for ISO C++: In just the past few months, it has started to become clear that C++ is approaching three major positive turning points that are starting to materialize together in a blossoming of usability we haven’t seen since C++11.

First, compile-time reflection, including source generation, will dominate the next decade of C++ as arguably the most powerful feature that we’ve ever standardized, and (fingers crossed!) it’s on track for being included in C++26 in the coming months. I expect reflection’s impact on library building to be comparable to that of all the other library-building improvements combined that we’ve added since C++98.

Second, memory safety is being taken seriously in WG21. After a decade or two of gradual smaller improvements, the committee is actively working toward taking the major step of enabling well-known proven-effective safety checks at compile time by default, without compromising performance.

Third, simplifying C++ is being taken seriously. I’m not the only person actively proposing simplifications to C++, and I expect the rate of simplification proposal papers to increase again in the coming year as the fruits of in-the-field experiments turn into evidence that the experimental improvements are working and are ready to be considered for ISO C++ itself to benefit all programmers.

Most of all, the above overlap and reinforce each other. For example, reflection will enable writing more new facilities as compile-time libraries instead of as language features that have to be baked into a compiler, which helps simplify future language evolution. Reflection will also enable compile-time libraries that let developers express their intent directly and leave it to the library code to accurately generate correct implementations, which helps reduce errors and makes our code both simpler and safer.

ISO C++ has long been solidly in the top 5 programming languages and is going strong. This talk presents reasons to expect that C++’s future is bright, and that perhaps its most important decade is just ahead.

CppCon 2024 From Macro to Micro in C++ -- Conor Spilsbury

By Blog Staff | May 24, 2025 12:32 PM | Tags: None

Lightning Talk: From Macro to Micro in C++

by Conor Spilsbury

Summary of the talk:

Our continuous real-time monitoring led us to investigate an anomaly in the data about our system's performance. This led us to investigate and identify the culprit: a specific data structure used in our code and the way that structure was being initialized.

CppCon 2024 To Int or to Uint, This is the Question -- Alex Dathskovsky

By Blog Staff | May 22, 2025 12:26 PM | Tags: None

To Int or to Uint, This is the Question

by Alex Dathskovsky

Summary of the talk:

In our daily work, we often use integral data types to perform arithmetic calculations, but we may not always consider how the selection of the data type can affect performance and compiler optimizations. This talk will delve into the importance of choosing the correct data type for the job and how it impacts compiler optimizations. We will also examine the overall performance implications for the application. We will explore specific algorithms where using unsigned data types is more beneficial and other situations where signed data types are the best choice. Furthermore this talk will dive into the differences between signed and unsigned integers, how the processor handles certain operations and explain many of the surprising pitfalls of using integral types.

Attendees will come away with a deeper understanding of how data type selection can impact their code and how to make better choices for optimal performance.

This session will follow the guidelines from my short article on LinkedIn but it will go into higher details and contain more examples and explanations.

CppCon 2024 When Nanoseconds Matter: Ultrafast Trading Systems in C++ -- David Gross

By Blog Staff | May 20, 2025 09:12 AM | Tags: None

Registration is now open for CppCon 2025! The conference starts on September 13 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting videos of some of the top-rated talks from last year's conference. Here’s another CppCon talk video we hope you will enjoy – and why not register today for CppCon 2025!

When Nanoseconds Matter: Ultrafast Trading Systems in C++

by David Gross

Summary of the talk:

Achieving low latency in a trading system cannot be an afterthought; it must be an integral part of the design from the very beginning. While low latency programming is sometimes seen under the umbrella of "code optimization", the truth is that most of the work needed to achieve such latency is done upfront, at the design phase. How to translate our knowledge about the CPU and hardware into C++? How to use multiple CPU cores, handle concurrency issues and cost, and stay fast?

In this talk, I will be sharing with you some industry insights on how to design from scratch a low latency trading system. I will be presenting building blocks that application developers can directly re-use when in their trading systems (or some other high performance, highly concurrent applications).

Additionally, we will delve into several algorithms and data structures commonly used in trading systems, and discuss how to optimize them using the latest features available in C++. This session aims to equip you with practical knowledge and techniques to enhance the performance of your systems and make informed decisions about the tools and technologies you choose to employ.