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Trip report: February 2025 ISO C++ standards meeting (Hagenberg, Austria)

Sutter's Mill

On Saturday, the ISO C++ committee completed the second-last design meeting of C++26, held in Hagenberg, Austria. Highlights This time, the committee adopted the next set of features for C++26, and made significant progress on other features that are now expected to be complete in time for C+26.

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C++ safety, in context

Sutter's Mill

To talk about C++’s current safety problems and solutions well, I need to include the context of the broad landscape of security and safety threats facing all software. Many of the most damaging recent security breaches happened to code written in MSLs (e.g., tl;dr: I don’t want C++ to limit what I can express efficiently.

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Trip report: Autumn ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual)

Sutter's Mill

On Monday, the ISO C++ committee completed its final full-committee (plenary) meeting of 2020 and adopted the first changes to the C++23 working draft, including a few new features. This was a first in several ways: It was our first-ever virtual plenary, held online via Zoom. I wonder whether uz will be pronounced Uzi.)

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Trip report: Winter 2021 ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual)

Sutter's Mill

Today, the ISO C++ committee held its second full-committee (plenary) meeting of the pandemic and adopted a few more features and improvements for draft C++23. Japan had participated in person during C++98 and C++11, and has always given us good remote ballot feedback during C++14/17/20, and is attending again now; welcome back!

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Trip report: Summer 2021 ISO C++ standards meeting (virtual)

Sutter's Mill

On Monday, the ISO C++ committee held its third full-committee (plenary) meeting of the pandemic and adopted a few more features and improvements for draft C++23. Slovakia is our newest national body to officially join international C++ work. See the paper for details, and why we really want if consteval in the language.

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Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase

The Netflix TechBlog

While we understand it’s virtually impossible to achieve a linear increase in throughput as the number of vCPUs grow, a near-linear increase is attainable. Drilling down into “hot” methods and further into the assembly code showed us blocks of code with some instructions exceeding 100 CPI, which is extremely slow.

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What is application security? And why it needs a new approach

Dynatrace

Application security is a software engineering term that refers to several different types of security practices designed to ensure applications do not contain vulnerabilities that could allow illicit access to sensitive data, unauthorized code modification, or resource hijacking.