[Updated Apr 3 to note automatic deduction of return type.] The ISO C++ committee met in Bellevue, WA, USA on February 24 to March 1, 2008. Here’s a quick summary of what we did (with links to the relevant papers to read for more details), and information about upcoming meetings. Lambda functions and closures (N2550) [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Trip Report: February/March 2008 ISO C++ Standards Meeting
Posted in C++ on 2008-03-29 | 34 Comments »
Concurrency Interview with DevX
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development, Talks & Events on 2008-03-28 | Comments Off
I recently spent an hour on the phone to talk concurrency with DevX’s Alexa Weber Morales. Part 1 of that interview just went live on the web, and focuses mostly on what concurrency and parallelism are, how to take advantage of multicore chips, and whether concurrency will ever be really accessible to mainstream developers. The [...]
New Course Available: Effective Concurrency
Posted in Concurrency, Talks & Events on 2008-03-12 | 2 Comments »
Many of you have kindly sent mail about my Effective Concurrency columns and asking when there’ll be a course. Well, I’m happy to announce that the answer is: May 19-21, 2008. Here’s the brief information (more details below): 3-Day Seminar: Effective Concurrency May 19-21, 2008 Bellevue, WA, USA Developed and taught by Herb Sutter This [...]
Effective Concurrency: Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine
Posted in Concurrency on 2008-03-12 | Comments Off
The latest Effective Concurrency column, "Super Linearity and the Bigger Machine", just went live on DDJ’s site, and will also appear in the print magazine. From the article: There are two main ways to achieve superlinear scalability, or to use P processors to compute an answer more than P times faster…: Do disproportionately less work. [...]
Stroustrup & Sutter: The Lyrics
Posted in C++, Talks & Events on 2008-03-10 | 1 Comment »
Last week’s Stroustrup & Sutter on C++ was a huge amount of fun, and Bjarne and I want to thank everyone who came. It was a record-shattering year, and it’s great to see C++ clearly thriving and growing. A lot of people requested the (modified) lyrics to the songs we performed (yes, if you missed [...]
