The next Effective Concurrency column, “Writing a Generalized Concurrent Queue”, just went live on DDJ’s site, and also appears in the print magazine. From the article: Last month [1], I showed code for a lock-free queue that supported the limited case of exactly two threads—one producer, and one consumer. That’s useful, but maybe not as [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Effective Concurrency: Writing a Generalized Concurrent Queue
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development on 2008-10-30 | 3 Comments »
September 2008 ISO C++ Standards Meeting: The Draft Has Landed, and a New Convener
Posted in C++ on 2008-10-28 | 38 Comments »
The ISO C++ committee met in San Francisco, CA, on September 15-20. You can find the minutes here, including the votes to approve papers. The most important thing the committee accomplished was this: Complete C++0x draft published for international ballot The biggest goal entering this meeting was to make C++0x feature-complete and stay on track [...]
Stroustrup & Sutter on C++ 2008, Second Showing: October 30-31, 2008, in Boston, MA, USA
Posted in C++, Software Development, Talks & Events on 2008-10-01 | 7 Comments »
This spring at SD West in Santa Clara, Bjarne and I did a fresh-and-updated S&S event with lots of new material. We don’t usually repeat the same material, but this time there’s been such demand that we agreed to do a repeat… four weeks from today, in Boston. More information and talk descriptions follow. CONTENT [...]