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Generating OpenCL/CUDA source code from C++ expressions in VexCL

By Meeting C++ | Jan 9, 2015 03:40 AM | Tags: parallelism opencl intermediate gpu experimental efficiency cuda concurrency advanced

A solution to generate code for CUDA and OpenCL with C++:

Generating OpenCL/CUDA source code from C++ expressions in VexCL

by Denis Demidov

From the talk description:

VexCL is an opensource C++ vector expression template library for OpenCL/CUDA. It has been created for ease of GPGPU development with C++ and provides convenient and intuitive notation for linear algebra operations, vector arithmetic and various parallel primitives.

Multiplatform C++ - Edouard Alligand @ Meeting C++ 2014

By Meeting C++ | Jan 8, 2015 03:25 AM | Tags: meeting c++ intermediate advanced

The latest version of Edouard Alligands talk on Multiplatform development with C++:

Multiplattform C++

by Edouard Alligand

From the talk description:

C++ is a multiplatform language, yet many difficulties arise when you want the same code to compile properly and function identically on different platforms. If you put aside the obvious system programming related obstacles, and the differences you might have between compilers (especially when it comes to supporting C++11 and C++14), you come to the surprising conclusion that what is truly hard is all the “little things” you didn’t anticipate.

Monads in Chains - Ivan Cukic @meetingcpp 2014

By Meeting C++ | Jan 1, 2015 06:28 AM | Tags: performance intermediate functional programming functional experimental efficiency c++14 c++11 advanced

Ivan Cukic gave a very good talk on monads at Meeting C++ 2014:

Monads in Chains

by Ivan Cukic

From the talk description:

Monads are scary, and monads are evil. But they are still useful.

In the recent years, the abuse of multi-threading has become apparent and more and more systems started being developed in the reactive, or event-processing style. It allows lowering the number of threads to match the system cores instead of items that are being processed by using non-blocking asynchronous APIs.

The Evolving Search for Effective C++ --Scott Meyers

By Razvan Pascalau | Dec 18, 2014 04:23 AM | Tags: c++11 basics

Scott Meyers' keynote at the Meeting C++ 2014 conference. A short description can be found on 

the presenters blog.

The Evolving Search for Effective C++

by Scott Meyers

Description from the blog:

The video of my keynote address at Meeting C++ 2014 on December 5 has just been posted to the Meeting C++ Channel at YouTube. I was given a long time slot (two hours), so I addressed two rather different topics, both based on my work of the past quarter century identifying and promulgating guidelines for effective C++ programming...

C++ Template Metaprogramming Introduction -- Nicolás Brailovsky

By ltorje | Dec 10, 2014 01:53 AM | Tags: None

tmp-pandora.PNGIn case you missed it, from Nicolás Brailovsky's blog -- an interesting post after you get past a little ranting:

C++ Template Metaprogramming Introduction

by Nicolás Brailovsky

From the article:

First, we need to start with a little clarification: using template <class T> to parametrize a class, something like std::vector does, is not template metaprogramming. That’s just a generic class (Java-pun intended). That is indeed a useful case for templates, but it has little fun in it.

Template metaprogramming is much more fun than mere generic classes...

A few notes:

  • Even if template metaprogramming isn't something that every C++ developer will do on daily basis, it's worth being able to understand when you see it.
  • For homework, try solving the Hanoi Tower problem by using template metaprogramming. [A sample for the 8-Queens problem is available here.]