The ISO C++ committee met in Santa Cruz, CA, USA on October 19-24. You can find the minutes here, which include the votes at the whole-group sessions but not the details of the breakout technical sessions where we spend most of the week. The good news is that there’s little new technical news. We did [...]
Archive for November, 2009
Trip Report: October 2009 ISO C++ Standards Meeting
Posted in C++ on 2009-11-11 | 16 Comments »
Effective Concurrency: Prefer structured lifetimes – local, nested, bounded, deterministic.
Posted in Concurrency, Effective Concurrency on 2009-11-11 | 4 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, Prefer structured lifetimes – local, nested, bounded, deterministic, is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: Where possible, prefer structured lifetimes: ones that are local, nested, bounded, and deterministic. This is true no matter what kind of lifetime we’re considering, including object lifetimes, thread or task lifetimes, lock lifetimes, [...]
Other Concurrency Sessions at PDC’09
Posted in Concurrency, Talks & Events on 2009-11-04 |
I mentioned yesterday that I’ll be involved in two sessions at PDC09, including a parallel patterns tutorial. I know many of you are interested in concurrency in general and on Microsoft platforms in particular, so I thought I’d share this more complete list of concurrency-related sessions at PDC, put together by my colleague Stephen [...]
PDC’09: Tutorial & Panel
Posted in Concurrency, Talks & Events on 2009-11-03 | 1 Comment »
For those of you coming to PDC’09 in Los Angeles a couple of weeks from now, I’ll be there for a few hours on Monday and Wednesday participating in two events: Patterns of Parallel Programming: A Tutorial on Fundamental Patterns and Practices for Parallelism. The full-day tutorial is full of useful information. I’ll be giving [...]
