Programming History, JIT Compilations and Generic Algorithms

Rob and Jason are joined by Ben Deane from Quantlab. They first discuss the 11.0 update of Clang and an a blog post highlighting some of the smaller features that were added in C++17. They then talk to Ben about some of his recent CppCon talks including one on what we can learn from the history of programming languages and another on the ability to JIT C++ code.

News

• Clang 11.0.0 is out
• 17 Smaller but Handy C++17 Features

Links

• Careers at Quantlab
• Constructing Generic Algorithms: Principles and Practice - Ben Deane - CppCon 2020
• Just-in-Time Compilation: The Next Big Thing? - Ben Deane & Kris Jusiak - CppCon 2020
• How We Used To Be - Ben Deane - CppCon 2020

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