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By Felix Petriconi | May 24, 2019 09:30 AM | Tags: community
The Call for Proposals for the ACCU Autumn 2019 Conference to be held 2019-11-11 to 2019-11-12 at Hilton Hotel in Belfast is now open.
Call for Proposals
by ACCU
About the conference:
The call for proposals is open until 2019-06-16.
This conference abuts the WG21 committee meeting so expect lots of C++ folk to be around.
By Hartmut Kaiser | May 23, 2019 09:31 AM | Tags: performance parallelism heterogeneous computing distributed computing c++17 c++14 c++11
The STE||AR Group has released V1.3 of HPX -- A C++ Standard library for parallelism and concurrency.
HPX V1.3 Released
The newest version of HPX (V1.3) is now available for download! This release focuses on performance and stability improvements. Please see here for the full release notes.
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 Ansel Sermersheim | May 22, 2019 12:29 PM | Tags: None
New video on the CopperSpice YouTube Channel:
Declarations and Type Conversions
by Barbara Geller and Ansel Sermersheim
About the video:
In this video we discuss typedefs and using declarations. We look at how to use typedefs to choose appropriate data types when working with containers, and discuss various issues you can encounter if the correct type is not used. We also examine the complex subject of type conversions, and investigate how type casts work and when they are valid.
Please take a look and remember to subscribe!
By jdgarcia | May 22, 2019 12:24 PM | Tags: None
During using std::cpp 2019 we had a "Grill the committee" session.
Grill the committee
by std::cpp conference
About the session:
The panel consisted of
- Axel Naumann (CERN), Swiss National Body.
- Guy Davidson (Creative Assembly), UK National Body.
- Timur Doumler. UK National Body.
- Juan Alday (Bloomberg), US National Body.
- J. Daniel Garcia (University Carlos III of Madrid), Spanish National Body.
By jdgarcia | May 21, 2019 12:50 PM | Tags: None
Some sessions from the recent using std::cpp are now online.
Some fun with reactive programming in C++17
by Joaquín M. López
About the session:
Reactive Programming models program behavior as a directed graph of data dependencies where state changes propagate through callbacks. We introduce the main concepts of RP and some motivational examples through the construction of an RP microframework in C++17 using Boost.Signals2.
Joaquín M López Muñoz is a telecommunications engineer from the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). He started programming at 13 and discovered C++ more than 20 years ago. Member of the Spanish C++ Standards Committee and Boost author (MultiIndex, Flyweight, PolyCollection).
By jdgarcia | May 21, 2019 12:46 PM | Tags: None
Some sessions from the recent using std::cpp are now online.
Deepening inline
by Jose Caicoya
About the session:
inline is a reserved C ++ word that has always been associated with the performance of applications. The C ++ Standard indicates that its implementation "is not required to perform this substitution”, which is, to say the least, confusing. In C++ 11 another meaning radically different was added to the keyword: you can qualify the namespaces to get symbolic versioning. Since C++ 17 inline can be applied to variables, allowing them to be declared and defined in the header files without breaking the one definition rule. In this talk these aspects will be covered, exemplifying their use in Qt libraries, as well as indicating several tips on when and how to use inline.
Jose Caicoya (Velneo) studied Applied mathematics and Computing at Oviedo University and was teaching maths and programming for ten years. Beyond his beginnings with the Zx Spectrum, he became a professional developer and nowadays he enjoys programming at Velneo. He is Member and Secretary of the Spanish C++ Standards Committee.
By jdgarcia | May 20, 2019 01:45 PM | Tags: None
Some sessions from the recent using std::cpp are now online.
Reflecting C++
by Axel Naumann
About the session:
What do you use to not get lost in a new city? A map! Some of today's C++ code is as complex as a metropolis, but mapping it still relies on tools to generate descriptions. Wouldn't it be nice to query C++ code from within C++? To answer questions like "which members do you have?" and "what is your type"? That's what reflection is about. This presentation will introduce the magic of the meta land, the features that open up with reflection in your hand.
In your hand? Yes: a first Reflection TS is scheduled to be published in 2019. In parallel the C++ committee is investing a lot of work in making the interfaces nicer, by making it stdlib's first constexpr library. As one of the Reflection TS authors, I will give you a quick tour of where we are and where it is we are going - which is relevant for any library that wants to live in compile-time space.
Axel Naumann (CERN) graduated as an experimental high energy / particle physicist. After a couple of years in The Netherlands and the US, he is now working at CERN, where he is leading the ROOT project https://root.cern, used by tens of thousands of physicists (and others) with varying coding expertise, to analyze about 1 exabytes of serialized C++ data - all in C++, with dynamic Python bindings. Since 2011, Axel is CERN's representative at the ISO C++ committee. Examples of past presentations include talks at 33C3, ACCU and a Google Tech Talk, as well as lectures and trainings.
By jdgarcia | May 20, 2019 01:42 PM | Tags: None
Some sessions from the recent using std::cpp are now online.
Will we see C++ standard linear algebra in AAA games?
by Guy Davidson
About the session:
C++ is getting ready to learn linear algebra. Guy Davidson and Bob Steagall are leading a proposal to introduce vector and matrix types to the standard library. This talk will take a whirlwind tour through the study of linear algebra, the new proposed types and functions, and consider their use in the low-latency games development environment.
Guy Davidson (Creative Assembly) has been writing games for nearly 40 years and has not grown tired of it. He is the Principal Coding Manager at Creative Assembly, makers of the Total War franchise, Alien:Isolation and Halo Wars 2.
By Adrien Hamelin | May 20, 2019 01:10 PM | Tags: community
The guidelines explained further.
C++ Core Guidelines: The Standard Library
by Rainer Grimm
From the article:
Curiously, there is no section to the algorithms of the standard template library (STL) in this chapter. Curiously, because there is a proverb in the C++ community: If you write an explicit loop, you don't know the algorithms of the STL. Anyway. Only for completeness, let me start with the first three rules which provide not much beef...
By jdgarcia | May 19, 2019 07:53 AM | Tags: None
Some sessions from the recent using std::cpp are now online.
Text Formatting for a future range based standard library
by Arno Schödl
About the session:
In this talk, I want to convince you that the combination of ranges with a bit of metaprogramming makes for a very elegant solution to the text formatting problem. We introduce a form of ranges with internal iteration, which are generating their elements one by one rather than exposing external iterators. We can use these generator ranges to represent the values to be formatted, conceptually turning them into lazily evaluated strings. These can be used just like regular strings are used today: in function returns; as standard algorithm input; embedded into other, equally lazily evaluated strings; and so on, before they are finally expanded for display.
Dr. Arno Schödl (Think-Cell) is the Co-Founder and Technical Director of think-cell Software GmbH. Arno is responsible for the design, architecture and development of all our software products. He oversees think-cell's R&D team, Quality Assurance and Customer Care. Before founding think-cell, Arno worked at Microsoft Research and McKinsey & Company. Arno studied computer science and management and holds a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a specialization on Computer Graphics.
