Compile Time Maze Generator (and Solver)

by Jason Turner

In this episode Jason demonstrates how to build a random maze generator (and solver) that can be executed at compile time with constexpr.

constexpr Compile Time Random

by Jason Turner

In this episode Jason demonstrates a constexpr enabled random number generator. He then modifies it to generate a different random number sequence each time it is compiled.

CppCast Episode 84: Memory Algorithm Proposal with Brittany Friedman

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

Brittany Friedman is a dense collection of matter formed from molecules originating inside the sun. She currently works as a programmer at Gearbox Software, where she weaves ones and zeroes into intricate little patterns. Her proposal for new memory management algorithms was accepted for C++17 and a bug that she filed against the C++ standard was fixed the way that she recommended. So basically you do not want to trifle with her.

Stack Elision?

by Jason Turner

In this episode Jason explores Clang's and GCC's ability to elide stack operations during optimization.

CppCast Episode 83: Regular Void with Matt Calabrese

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

Matt Calabrese is a software engineer working primarily in C++. He started his programming career in the game industry and is now working on libraries at Google. Matt has been active in the Boost community for over a decade, is currently a member of the Boost Steering Committee, and is a member of the Program Committee for C++Now. Starting in the fall of 2015, he has been attending C++ Standards Committee meetings, authoring several proposals targeting the standard after C++17, notably including a proposal to turn the void type into an instantiable type and a proposal for the standard library to introduce a generic algorithm for invoking standard Callables with argument types and argument amounts that may be partially calculated at compile-time or at runtime. He is also the author of the controversial paper "Why I want Concepts, but why they should come later rather than sooner", which may have contributed to the decision to not include the concepts language feature in C++17.

Clang's Heap Elision

by Jason Turner

In this episode Jason explores Clang's ability to elide heap operations during optimization.

More videos are online!

by Jens Weller

Meeting C++ 2016 Playlist

With today, almost all videos from the A and all videos of the D Track are online. There is a recording issue with one talk in the A track, which might get resolved in 2017. Also since today, the Meeting C++ YouTube channel has more then 400k views!

The full video set you can find in the Meeting C++ 2016 Playlist, the newest videos are easily found by visiting the Meeting C++ YouTube channel or subscribing to this RSS feed.

CppCast Episode 82: Catch 2 and C++ the Community with Phil Nash

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

Phil started coding back in the early 80s, on 8-bit home computers: from the ZX-81 to the Commodore 64, in BASIC and assembler. He later moved on to PCs and C++ in the early 90s and, despite forays into other languages, keeps coming back to C++. His career has taken him through domains such as anti-virus, mobile, finance and developer tools - among others. He's the original author of the C++ test framework, Catch and is now Developer Advocate at JetBrains for CLion, AppCode and ReSharper C++. His hobbies include writing podcast bios and trolling the podcast hosts.

C++17's constexpr Lambda Support

by Jason Turner

In this episode Jason demonstrates how C++17's support for lambdas in a constexpr context can clean up many constexpr use cases.

CppCast Episode 81: C++ Game Development at Ubisoft with Nicolas Fleury

by Rob Irving and Jason Turner

Nicolas has 13 years of experience in the video game industry, more years in the software industry in telecoms, in speech recognition and in computer assisted surgery. Technical Architect on Tom Clancy's: Rainbow Six Siege, he is one of the key Architects behind some collaboration initiatives at Ubisoft and was also Technical Architect on games like Prince of Persia. He presented at CppCon 2014 "C++ in Huge AAA Games".