CppCast

Phil Nash & Timur Doumler
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Aug 19, 2021 • 60min

Efficient Programming with Components

Rob and Jason are joined by Justin Meiners. They first talk about a big boost library update, and whether Valgrind is still useful compared to sanitizers. Then they talk to Justin Meiners about Alex Stepanov, his contribution to the STL and some of his courses that are still relevant to today's C++ programmers. News Boost v1.77.0 Intel C/C++ compilers complete adoption of LLVM Valgrind - A neglected tool from the shadows or a serious debugging tool? Links Efficient Programming with Components - YouTube Playlist Efficient Programming with Components - Notes by Justin Meiners Merge with fewer comparisons (using goto) Sponsors C++ Builder
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Aug 12, 2021 • 1h 1min

News and Catching Up

Rob and Jason talk about C++ news, upcoming conferences, tooling updates and a bit about the C++ projects they work on in their day jobs. News NDC TechTown Keynote and Class CppCon Practical Performance Practices CppCon Big Update with Big Thanks for a Big Program You're Doing IoT RNG Remove nodiscard annotations from the standard library specification std::span is not zero-cost because of the ms abi /r/cpp - Does anyone ever use goto in their code? /r/cpp - Github actions to setup gcc/clang/mingw /r/cpp - Am I going to be burned at the stake for using basic_string as an integer array? ReSharper C++ 2021.2: Type Conversion Hints, Immutability Inspections, Inline Function Moving a project to C++ named Modules Sponsors PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About PVS-Studio podcast transcripts
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Aug 5, 2021 • 60min

Performance Tuning

Rob and Matt are joined by Denis Bakhvalov. They first talk about building Minesweeper in C++ with SFML and a paper on throughput prediction on intel microarchitectures. Then they talk to Denis about his blog, book and video series focusing on C++ performance, and his vision of the future tooling and techniques of writing performant C++ code. News Making the Classic Minesweeper Game using C++ and SFML Hot Reload support for C++ Applications Spdlog 1.9.1 released. Support for compile-time format string validation Accurate throughput prediction of basic blocks on recent intel microarchitectures Links easyperf.net Performance Analysis and Tuning on Modern CPUs Performance Ninja Course LLVM+CGO Performance Workshop - Performance Tuning: Future Compiler Improvements Proebsting's Law Sponsors PVS-Studio Learns What strlen is All About PVS-Studio podcast transcripts
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Jul 29, 2021 • 60min

STLab

Rob and Jason are joined by Sean Parent and Dave Abrahams. They first talk to Dave about his history with C++, Boost and the Swift programming language. Then they talk with Sean and Dave about Adobe's Software Technology Lab and their plans to focus on Concurrency in C++. News A Neat trick with consteval Constexpr memory allocation Comprehensive Catalog of C++ Books Links stlab stlab on GitHub Sponsors C++ Builder
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Jul 22, 2021 • 60min

HPX and DLA Future

Rob and Jason are joined by Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg. They first discuss some blog posts on returning multiple values from a function and C++ Ranges. Then they talk to Hartmut Kaiser and Mikael Simberg on the latest version of HPX, how easy it is to gain performance improvements with HPX, and DLA Futures, the Distributed Linear Algebra library built using HPX. News An Unexpected Article About Our Unicorn: Who Is the PVS-Studio Mascot? How to Return Several Values from a Function in C++ C++20 ranges benefits: avoid dangling pointers Links HPX HPX on GitHub HPX 1.7.0 released DLA Future on GitHub Sponsors C++ Builder
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Jul 15, 2021 • 60min

Improving Performance

Rob and Jason are joined by Ivica Bogosavljevic from Johny's Software Lab. They first talk about an open sourced 3d game engine and C++ documentation tools. Then they talk to Ivica Bogosavljevic from Johny's Software Lab where he writes about methods to improve performance in C++ applications. News Open 3D Engine Doc Tools for C++ Libraries CppCon 2021 call for submissions Second set of Meeting C++ AMAs Links Johny's Software Lab easyperf Sponsors PVS-Studio Team: Switching to Clang Improved PVS-Studio C++ Analyzer's Performance Beta-Testing of PVS-Studio Plugin for JetBrains CLion PVS-Studio podcast transcripts
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Jul 8, 2021 • 60min

Tipi.build

Rob and Jason are joined by Damien Buhl and Yannic Staudt from tipi.build. They first talk about a new text encoding library and whether const should be the default for variables. Then they talk about tipi.build, the Compiler-as-a-Service that understands C++ code and can build it without scripts. News Any Encoding, Ever - ztd.text and Unicode for C++ Should every variable be const by default? Reversing words of a string with ranges -#thatsarotate Links tipi.build Join tipi.build beta tipi.build blog @TipiBuild Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
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Jul 1, 2021 • 60min

LFortran

Rob and Jason are joined by Ondřej Čertík from Los Alamos National Laboratory. They first talk about ISO Papers and Github's CoPilot AI programmer. Then they talk to Ondřej about LFortran, a modern LLVM based Fortran compiler that can compile Fortran code into C++. News June 2021 ISO Mailing C++ Library Include Times GitHub Copilot CppCon Field Trip Links LFortran Fortran Fortran Package Manager Sponsors PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license Date Processing Attracts Bugs or 77 Defects in Qt 6 COVID-19 Research and Uninitialized Variables
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Jun 25, 2021 • 60min

Regression Testing with Touca

Rob and Jason are joined by Pejman Ghorbanzade. They first talk about changes to the format library to enable better compile time errors, and some conference news from CppCon, C++ on Sea and NDC TechTown. Then they talk to Pejman about Touca, a new tool he's created for continuous regression testing. News Palanteer A quest for safe text formatting API C++ On Sea starting soon CppCon call for submissions NDC TechTown call for papers Links Touca Touca's vision for the future of regression testing Touca SDK on GitHub Sponsors Incredibuild
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Jun 18, 2021 • 60min

Modernizing DOSBox

Rob and Jason are joined by Patryk Obara. They first talk about in Visual Studio 2019 and a Trip Report from Herb Sutter on the Summer ISO meeting. Then they talk to Patryk Obara about the dosbox project itself and the dosbox staging repository where he's been working to modernize dosbox. News <format> in Visual Studio 2019 v16.10 Trip report: Summer 2021 ISO C++ Standards meeting (virtual) Painless coroutines part 4 Links DOSBox Staging DOSBox Staging on GitHub DOSBOX Sponsors Incredibuild

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