By Meeting C++ | Jul 11, 2017 01:34 AM | Tags: meetingcpp conferences community
A first list on confirmed speakers and their talks for this years Meeting C++ conference!
Confirmed Speakers & Talks at Meeting C++ 2017
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Last week the decisions for who could speak at Meeting C++ 2017 was made, and the selected candidates were contacted. Here is a little overview on talks and speakers for this years conference. There is a few speakers which haven't reacted yet, hope to share these talks soon too.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 7, 2017 02:03 PM | Tags: community advanced
The series continues.
Making things do stuff
by Glennan Carnie
From the article:
As code designers we tend to eschew specific ‘stove-pipe’ code in favour of reusable code elements. Up until now we’ve been coding some very specific examples so it’s probably worth looking at some more generic solutions...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 7, 2017 01:47 PM | Tags: performance community
Have you registered for CppCon 2017 in September? Don’t delay – Registration is open now.
While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2016 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
Improving Performance Through Compiler Switches...
by Tim Haines
Summary of the talk:
Much attention has been given to what modern optimizing compilers can do with your code, but little is ever said as to how to make the compiler invoke these optimizations. Of course, the answer is compiler switches! But which ones are needed to generate the best code? How many switches does it take to get the best performance? How do different compilers compare when using the same set of switches? I explore all of these questions and more to shed light on the interplay between C++ compilers and modern hardware drawing on my work in high performance scientific computing.
Enabling modern optimizing compilers to exploit current-generation processor features is critical to success in this field. Yet, modernizing aging codebases to utilize these processor features is a daunting task that often results in non-portable code. Rather than relying on hand-tuned optimizations, I explore the ability of today's compilers to breathe new life into old code. In particular, I examine how industry-standard compilers like those from gcc, clang, and Intel perform when compiling operations common to scientific computing without any modifications to the source code. Specifically, I look at streaming data manipulations, reduction operations, compute-intensive loops, and selective array operations. By comparing the quality of the code generated and time to solution from these compilers with various optimization settings for several different C++ implementations, I am able to quantify the utility of each compiler switch in handling varying degrees of abstractions in C++ code. Finally, I measure the effects of these compiler settings on the up-and-coming industrial benchmark High Performance Conjugate Gradient that focuses more on the effects of the memory subsystem than current benchmarks like the traditional High Performance LinPACK suite.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 6, 2017 11:58 AM | Tags: community
Complete set up of a project:
Modern C++ CI
by Juan Medina
From the article:
Modern C++ is great, some people are even calling it a new language, but is not only the language what is evolving the tool-chain is getter better, so doing continuous integration for cross platform projects is simple and effective.
I decide to do a simple project using some of the C++14 features and following the C++ Core Guidelines whenever its possible. The result is available in this repository.
By Meeting C++ | Jul 6, 2017 08:16 AM | Tags: performance meetingcpp intermediate experimental efficiency community c++14 c++11 boost basics advanced
Meeting C++ exists now for 5 years, lets celebrate on the blog:
5 years of Meeting C++
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Just a little bit more then 5 years ago, Meeting C++ went public. Since then, it has been a wild ride and huge success. Today, Meeting C++ reaches over 50k in social media, the conference it self has grown from 150 to 600 in its 5 editions...
By Marco Arena | Jul 4, 2017 11:55 PM | Tags: community
Summary and stats of the biggest C++ event in Italy:
Italian C++ Conference 2017
by Marco Arena
From the article:
Last June 17 we had the Italian C++ Conference 2017 in Milan, one of the events totally focused on C++ organized by the Italian C++ Community that I lead and manage...
Videos will be published soon. Further communication will follow.
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 3, 2017 11:10 AM | Tags: community
Relevant news for C++ in June:
June C++ Link Roundup
by Eric Battalio
From the article:
C++ link roundup for June
By Adrien Hamelin | Jul 3, 2017 11:03 AM | Tags: intermediate community
Have you registered for CppCon 2017 in September? Don’t delay – Registration is open now.
While we wait for this year’s event, we’re featuring videos of some of the 100+ talks from CppCon 2016 for you to enjoy. Here is today’s feature:
Embracing Standard C++ for the Windows Runtime
by Kenny Kerr & James McNellis
Summary of the talk:
Believe it or not, avoiding language extensions and embracing modern C++ will make it easier for you to write code for Windows. The Universal Windows Platform in Windows 10 provides the ability for developers to write apps for many devices in many languages. To achieve this goal, it uses the Windows Runtime platform technology to expose functionality from the operating system into languages, including C++. Microsoft wants to make the Windows Runtime naturally and easily available to standard C++ developers. "C++/WinRT" (formerly moderncpp.com) is a standard C++ library and toolset currently under development at Microsoft. It includes a standalone compiler, which converts Windows Runtime metadata into a header-only library. The source code uses standard syntax consumable by any C++ compiler, making it easier for developers to use Windows Runtime APIs from C++.
We will begin this session with the goals of the "C++/WinRT" project. We'll look at the primitives of the Windows Runtime ABI and how this C++ library provides a natural projection of those primitives. We'll look at how C++11 and C++14 language features make it easier to encapsulate the COM infrastructure that underpins the Windows Runtime. Finally, we'll look at how we've optimized the implementation and discuss how a handful of compiler optimizations can make this C++ library efficient and effective for building a wide range of applications.
By Meeting C++ | Jul 3, 2017 07:35 AM | Tags: meetingcpp intermediate conference community basics advanced
On Saturday the voting on the program for Meeting C++ 2017 ended, here are the first results:
Meeting C++ 2017 voting results
by Jens Weller
From the article:
Time for a short overview on this years voting for the program of Meeting C++ 2017! Its been awesome to see 206 ppl vote on the 97 submitted talks, a great program is taking shape...
By Adrien Hamelin | Jun 30, 2017 03:14 PM | Tags: community c++11
A new language?
The rise of the new language MC++
by CppDepend Team
From the article:
During the last few years we talk about the “C++ Renaissance”. We have to admit that Microsoft was a major actor of this movement, I remember this video where Craig Symonds and Mohsen Agsen talked about it.
In 2011 Microsoft announced in many articles the come back of C++, and Microsoft C++ experts like Herb Sutter did many conferences to explain why C++ is back and mostly recommend the use of Modern C++. In the same time the standard C++11 was approved and we begin to talk about C++ as new language...