A week ago, I attended the summer ISO C++ meeting in Frankfurt, Germany. The C++ committee made a lot of progress on addressing national body comments on the full committee draft published last year, and is well on the way to publishing a second and final CD this winter with a final draft international standard [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Trip Report: Exit Concepts, Final ISO C++ Draft in ~18 Months
Posted in C++ on 2009-07-21 | 45 Comments »
Effective Concurrency: The Power of “In Progress”
Posted in Concurrency, Software Development on 2009-07-15 | 3 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, The Power of “In Progress”, is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: Don’t let a long-running operation take hostages. When some work that takes a long time to complete holds exclusive access to one or more popular shared resources, such as a thread or a mutex that controls [...]