In response to my note about John McCarthy’s inventing automatic (non ref-counted) garbage collection, rosen4obg asked: OK, GC was invented half a century ago. When it is going to land in the C++ world? Here’s a short but detailed answer, which links to illuminating reading and videos. The Three Kinds of GC The three major [...]
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Garbage Collection Synopsis, and C++
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Software Development on 2011-10-25 | 34 Comments »
My C++ and Beyond Intro: C++ Renaissance
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Java, Microsoft, Software Development on 2011-09-07 | 5 Comments »
Channel 9 has just posted a recording of my intro talk at C++ and Beyond 2011 last month in Banff. Here’s the link: C++ and Beyond 2011: Why C++. It’s a keynote-y talk, not a technical talk, but we felt it was important to address an important trend involving the language. The goal is to share a [...]
Interview on Channel 9
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Concurrency, Microsoft, Software Development, Talks & Events on 2011-05-04 | 4 Comments »
Channel 9 just posted a new interview with me about ISO C++0x, C++’s place in the modern world, and all things C++. The topics we talked about ranged pretty widely, as you can see from the questions below. Here’s the blurb as posted on Channel 9 with links to specific questions in the interview. Enjoy. Herb [...]
Interview on Channel 9
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Concurrency, Java on 2011-01-14 | 2 Comments »
Over the holidays, Erik Meijer interviewed me on Channel 9. We covered a wide variety of topics, mostly centered on C++ with some straying into C#/Java/Haskell/Clojure/Erlang, but ranging from auto and closures to why (not?) derive future<T> from T, and from what the two most important problems in parallelism are in 2011 to why and how [...]
PDC Languages Panel and (Shortened) Lambdas Talk
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Microsoft, Talks & Events on 2010-10-30 | 11 Comments »
At PDC 2010 this week, I participated in a panel and gave one talk. Both are now online for live on-demand viewing. Note: The talks should work on any browser. They do not require Silverlight. If you get a message that Silverlight is needed, it just made a mistake in auto-detecting your browser (I’m told this happens [...]
Effective Concurrency: Prefer Using Active Objects Instead of Naked Threads
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Concurrency, Software Development on 2010-07-12 | 8 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Prefer Using Active Objects Instead of Naked Threads,” is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: … Active objects dramatically improve our ability to reason about our thread’s code and operation by giving us higher-level abstractions and idioms that raise the semantic level of our program and let us [...]
Effective Concurrency: Prefer Futures to Baked-In “Async APIs”
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Concurrency, Software Development on 2010-01-17 | 11 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, Prefer Futures to Baked-In “Async APIs”, is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: When designing concurrent APIs, separate "what" from "how" Let’s say you have an existing synchronous API function [called DoSomething]… Because DoSomething could take a long time to execute (whether it keeps a CPU core busy [...]
Effective Concurrency: Avoid Exposing Concurrency – Hide It Inside Synchronous Methods
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Concurrency, Effective Concurrency, Software Development on 2009-10-12 | 4 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, Avoid Exposing Concurrency – Hide It Inside Synchronous Methods, is now live on DDJ’s website. From the article: You have a mass of existing code and want to add concurrency. Where do you start? Let’s say you need to migrate existing code to take advantage of concurrent execution or scale [...]
VS2010 Beta 1 Now Available
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Concurrency on 2009-05-20 | 17 Comments »
For those of you who are interested in using or trying Microsoft development tools, I’m happy to report that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 is now available. If you’re interested in: concurrency and parallel computing, check out the new concurrency runtime (ConcRT) that implements efficient work stealing for scalable code, the Asynchronous Agents Library and [...]
Effective Concurrency: Eliminate False Sharing
Posted in C# / .NET, C++, Concurrency, Hardware, Software Development on 2009-05-15 | 10 Comments »
This month’s Effective Concurrency column, “Eliminate False Sharing”, is now live on DDJ’s website. People keep writing asking me about my previous mentions of false sharing, even debating whether it’s really a problem. So this month I decided to treat it in depth, including: A compelling and realistic example where just changing a couple of [...]
