At CPPCON2017 Day 2, two talks were of special interest to me. One was a 2-hour talk about Local Allocators – and another about C++17 STL parallelised algorithms. Local Allocators The talk on Local Allocator by John Lakos was brilliant both in terms of content and in terms of presentation (I wish I’d be able to speak […]

At CPPCON2017 day 1, interesting (and IMO good <smile />) things were happening. A Chance to Get Readable Formatting: {fmt} IMO, the most important thing which has happened on Day 1 was a series of discussions about a potential to adding an alternative to overloaded operator << in iostreams <yay! />. Those who know me […]

[rabbit_ddmog vol=”8″ chap=”Outline of Chapter 29 from “beta” Volume VIII”] As I am speaking on CPPCON2017 on Friday, I didn’t have time to prepare the next chapter of “Development and Deployment of Multiplayer Online Games”. Still, I have a fairly interesting piece of information to share; it is a planned outline for one of the […]

Very short report from day 0 of CPPCON2017. Registration reception was lively (with Gor Nishanov being the star of the show, but lots of the other interesting people were noticed, I even spotted <da-dum /> Bjarne Himself). There were posters, and while some were well, not to my taste (example: IMNSHO, a global deadlock detection […]