October 25, Pavia, Italy
November 6-8, Berlin, Germany
November 3-8, Kona, HI, USA
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 13, 2018 12:40 PM | Tags: community
MAny things happened!
ISO C++ Committee – Rapperswil 2018 trip report
by Timur Doumler
From the article:
From the 4th to the 9th of June 2018, Phil Nash and I attended the ISO C++ Committee meeting in beautiful Rapperswil, Switzerland, representing JetBrains. We are continuing our active involvement in developing and standardising C++ (please read the last trip report for details)...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 13, 2018 12:39 PM | Tags: community
THe second part.
Triple trip report from ACCU, C++ Russia and C++Now 2018 – Part 2
by Jonathan Boccara
From the article:
This is my second part of the combined trip report for 3 conferences: ACCU, C++ Russia and C++Now, for their 2018 editions that I had the chance to attend...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 12, 2018 12:40 PM | Tags: community
Are you interested?
Interesting Book: The Modern C++ Challenge
by Scott Meyers
From the article:
I recently became aware of a nifty new book about C++, The Modern C++ Challenge. Today I saw that the ebook is available for $10, which strikes me as quite the bargain...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 12, 2018 12:36 PM | Tags: community
ACCU’s Overload journal of June 2018 is out. It contains the following C++ related articles.
Overload 145 is now available
From the journal:
Automate all the things
Automation can speed things up. Frances Buontempo considers how it can make things worse. by Frances Buontempo
How to Write a Programming Language: Part 1, The Lexer
Writing a programming language might sound very difficult. Andy Balaam starts his series with a lexer. by Andy Balaam
Type-agnostic Tracing Using {fmt}
Tracing compound and custom types is a challenge. Mike Crowe demonstrates how {fmt} provides a safe alternative to printf. by Mike Crowe
A Short Overview of Object Oriented Software Design
Object oriented design has many principles. Stanislav Kozlovski demonstrates good design through a role playing game. by Stanislav Kozlovski
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 11, 2018 12:44 PM | Tags: community
Rendering maps.
IO2D demo: Maps
by Michael Kazakov
From the article:
This blog post describes another IO2D demo I wrote as a showcase of the library’s capabilities. The demo is a simple yet working GIS renderer. The OpenStreetMap service is used as a raw data provider, allowing for the visualization of any reasonably sized rectangular region. The demo supports querying OSM servers directly or loading existing data files. The entire source code of the sample is less than 800 lines of code, of which 250 lines deal with the rendering itself and another 360 lines handle the data model.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 11, 2018 12:37 PM | Tags: community
If you missed the conference, here is your chance to catch up.
C++Now 2018 videos are now available!
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 11, 2018 12:33 PM | Tags: community
Have you registered for CppCon 2018 in September? Early bird registration is open now.
While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2017 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
ThinLTO: Scalable and Incremental Link-Time Optimization
by Teresa Johnson
Summary of the talk:
Whole program optimization enables higher performance in C++ applications, because of the expanded scope for analysis and optimization. However, the memory and time required to optimize the entire program together as a single unit traditionally has made whole program optimization infeasible for complex and large C++ applications, such as those being built at Google. Additionally, traditional whole program optimization frameworks have not supported fast incremental builds. ThinLTO (Thin Link Time Optimization) is a new compilation model that was recently deployed in the LLVM compiler toolchain to enable scalable whole program optimization for these huge C++ applications, and additionally enables the fast incremental builds required for use in day-to-day development.
In this talk we’ll describe why whole program optimization is beneficial for C++ applications, how the ThinLTO compilation model enables scalable and incremental builds, and how ThinLTO can be integrated with distributed build systems for even faster whole program builds. Additionally, we’ll describe implications for C++ developers.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 8, 2018 12:32 PM | Tags: community
Were you there?
Triple trip report from ACCU, C++ Russia and C++Now 2018 – Part 1
by Jonathan Boccara
From the article:
Going to conferences is a great experience, to learn about your domain and meet people that work in it. Going to conferences can give you tools to write better code.
I’ve had the chance to go to (and speak at) three conferences over a month:
- ACCU in Bristol, UK at the beginning of April,
- C++ Russia in Saint-Petersburg, Russia in mid April,
- C++Now in Aspen, US at the beginning of May.
I haven’t seen many people attending all three of them, so I figured I could make a combined trip report, to give you an idea of what they’re like. And more importantly what you would get by attending either one.
And a huge thanks to the company I work for, Murex, for sending me all over the world of C++!
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 8, 2018 12:25 PM | Tags: community
Have you registered for CppCon 2018 in September? Early bird registration is open now.
While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2017 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
The Nightmare of Move Semantics for Trivial Classes
by Nicolai Josuttis
Summary of the talk:
Assume, we implement a very simple class having just multiple string members. Even ordinary application programmer prefer to make it simple and fast.
You think you know how to do it? Well beware! It can become a lot harder than you initially might assume.
So, let’s look at a trivial class with multiple string members and use live coding to see the effect using different implementation approaches (using constructors passing by value, by reference, by perfect forwarding, or doing more sophisticated tricks).
Sooner than later we will fall into the deep darkness of universal/forwarding references, enable_if, type traits, and concepts.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 6, 2018 11:33 AM | Tags: community
Have you registered for CppCon 2018 in September? Early bird registration is open now.
While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2017 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
EA’s Secret Weapon: Packages and Modules
by Scott Wardle
Summary of the talk:
A lot of people hate build systems. What if using a library was just as easy as header-only libraries?
EA has had a Secret Weapon called “packages” for over 14 years. EA's Packages are like Ruby’s Gems or Perl’s CPAN or Rust’s cargo. If you build a package from the package server it will download all of its dependencies.
This talk will be about what we have learned about packages and versioning while building our large AAA games over the last 10+ years. Finally, what do we see for the future, like how will C++ modules fit in?
In detail I will talk about:
-Package layout
-Package server
-Versioning control and packages
-Libraries teams and platform fragmentation
-Packages' effect on large scale architecture
-C++ Modules TS prototypes