CppCon 2014

Programming Talks tagged with: "CppCon 2014"

Pragmatic Type Erasure: Solving OOP Problems Elegant Design Pattern

Zach Laine
44 minutes
Pragmatic Type Erasure: Solving OOP Problems Elegant Design Patternhttp://www.cppcon.org — Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014 -- There are numerous, serious OOP design problems that we have all encountered in production code. These include, among others: - object lifetime/ownership - how to make classes from different class hierarchies conform to a common interface - writing ...

CppCon 2014: Mark Maimone "C++ on Mars: Incorporating C++ into Mars Rover Flight Software"

CppCon 2014: Mark Maimone "C++ on Mars: Incorporating C++ into Mars Rover Flight Software"http://www.cppcon.org -- Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014 -- One of the more challenging aspects of developing flight software (FSW) for NASA's Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) and Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover was how to enable them to drive themselves safely through unknown ...

CppCon 2014: James McNellis & Kate Gregory "Making C++ Code Beautiful"

CppCon 2014: James McNellis & Kate Gregory "Making C++ Code Beautiful"http://www.cppcon.org — Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014 -- Ask a non-C++ developer what they think of C++ and they'll give the language plenty of compliments: powerful, fast, flexible, and "the language for smart people". But along with that you are likely to hear ugly, complicated, hard ...

CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Lock-Free Programming (or, Juggling Razor Blades), Part II"

CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Lock-Free Programming (or, Juggling Razor Blades), Part II"http://www.cppcon.org — Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014 -- Example-driven talk on how to design and write lock-free algorithms and data structures using C++ atomic -- something that can look deceptively simple, but contains very deep topics. (Important note: This is not the same as my "atomic ...

CppCon 2014: Andrei Alexandrescu "Optimization Tips - Mo' Hustle Mo' Problems"

CppCon 2014: Andrei Alexandrescu "Optimization Tips - Mo' Hustle Mo' Problems"http://www.cppcon.org — Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014 -- Reasonably-written C++ code will be naturally fast. This is to C++'s excellent low-penalty abstractions and a memory model close to the machine. However, a large category of applications have no boundaries on desired speed, meaning there's no point of ...

CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Lock-Free Programming (or, Juggling Razor Blades), Part I"

CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Lock-Free Programming (or, Juggling Razor Blades), Part I"http://www.cppcon.org — Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014 -- Example-driven talk on how to design and write lock-free algorithms and data structures using C++ atomic -- something that can look deceptively simple, but contains very deep topics. (Important note: This is not the same as my "atomic ...

CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures"

CppCon 2014: Chandler Carruth "Efficiency with Algorithms, Performance with Data Structures"http://www.cppcon.org — Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014 -- Why do you write C++ code? There is a good chance it is in part because of concerns about the performance of your software. Whether they stem from needing to run on every smaller mobile devices, squeezing the ...

CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style"

CppCon 2014: Herb Sutter "Back to the Basics! Essentials of Modern C++ Style"http://www.cppcon.org -- Presentation Slides, PDFs, Source Code and other presenter materials are available at: https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014 -- This talk revisits basic questions, such as how to declare and initialize a variable, how to pass a value to a function, how to write a simple loop, and how to use smart pointers, in the light of ...