Sutter's Mill

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Two weeks ago, Bjarne and I and lots of ISO committee members had a blast at the code::dive C++ conference held on November 25, just two days after the end of the Wrocaw ISO C++ meeting. Thanks again to Nokia for hosting the ISO meeting, and for inviting us all to speak at their conference!

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The Morning Paper

MAY 27, 2019

CheriABI: enforcing valid pointer provenance and minimizing pointer privilege in the POSIX C run-time environment Davis et al., And this all has to work for whole-system executions, not just the C-language portion of user processes. ASPLOS’19. We answer this question affirmatively. That ‘reasonable’ performance cost is a 6.8%

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Sutter's Mill

JULY 29, 2024

Safety and simplicity are the two core things I want to try to dramatically improve in C++, and are why I’m doing my cppfront experiment, so although the above absorbed some time away from cppfront coding it all contributes to the same goal. (If Jul 10, 2024), new things include: Added. Jul 10, 2024), new things include: Added.

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O'Reilly

MARCH 2, 2020

Fetishizing pair programming. If you were involved with professional programming in the 80s and 90s, you may remember how radical it was (and, in many shops, still is) to put software developers in touch with users and customers. It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage.

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O'Reilly

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s the single most popular programming language on O’Reilly, and it accounts for 10% of all usage. In programming, Python is preeminent. Normalized search frequency of top programming languages on the O’Reilly online learning platform in 2019 (left) and the rate of change for each language (right). Figure 3 (above).

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Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

JVM Programming Advent Calendar. Created by Eric Wastl, this is an advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. C# Advent Calendar. If you don’t have a Figma account, don’t worry, it’s free.) Amy Dutton on Twitter.

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Brendan Gregg

JANUARY 1, 2019

At the Linux Plumber's conference there were at least 24 talks on eBPF. So instead of a static HTML website, JavaScript lets you define mini programs that run on events like mouse clicks, which are run in a safe virtual machine in the browser. Programming in eBPF directly is incredibly hard, the same as coding in v8 bytecode.

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Sutter's Mill

MAY 1, 2023

These contributors represent people from high school and undergrad students to full professors, from commercial developers to conference speakers, and from every continent except Antarctica. Thank you again to everyone who helped land this Cpp2 feature in the ISO C++ Standard. Rejects nonsense chains like a >= b < c and d !=

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Sutter's Mill

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

I don’t get to Europe very often apart from ISO C++ standards meetings, but this spring I’ve been able to accept invitations for two English-language European events in the last week of April. Tue-Thu Apr 25-27: High-Performance and Low-Latency C++ (Stockholm). Description. Sat Apr 29: ACCU closing keynote (Bristol).

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Sutter's Mill

JANUARY 11, 2021

An assertion documents the expected state of specific program variables at the point where the assertion is written, in a testable way so that we can find program bugs — logic errors that have led to corrupted program state. Assertions are only about finding bugs, not doing program work. Bonus: [[assert: ?

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Sutter's Mill

APRIL 12, 2012

Last week at the Lang.NEXT 2012 conference in Redmond, I gave a 40-minute C++ talk and participated on a native languages panel. Here’s the 40-min C++ talk, taken from the C9 site: (Not Your Father’s) C++ Herb Sutter. What makes ISO C++11 "feel like a new language"? Both are now online at Channel 9.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Programming. Programming API using a Load Testing Tool. Tools, using standard languages such as C (e.g. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

I see people think like a programmer instead and feel they must start by learning bcc and BPF programming in depth. Then, having discovered everything is C or Python, some rewrite it all in a different language. That will be a quick and useful version 1. BPF up and running!

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

You may have read some blog posts or heard conference talks on this topic and think you know the answers. For example, if we have files A, B, and C, we would have three TCP connections. You see, because TCP is a much older protocol and not made for just loading web pages, it doesn’t know about A, B, or C. Robin Marx.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). ## 5. I also rewrote this in C and called gettimeofday(2) directly: $ cat gettimeofdaybench.c. top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

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Brendan Gregg

AUGUST 18, 2019

C @ns: [256, 512) 10900 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [512, 1k) 18291 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@| [1k, 2k) 4998 |@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ | [2k, 4k) 57 | | [4k, 8k) 117 | | [8k, 16k) 48 | | [16k, 32k) 109 | | [32k, 64k) 3 | |. The probe is BEGIN , a special probe that runs at the beginning of the program (like awk).

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Tech News Gather

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The application world began to move forward after Google announced Kotlin as the new programming language for Android Apps at the 2017 I/O conference. Because Google intends to change the platform to Kotlin, many programmers have chosen Kotlin for Android app development and programming. Easier and Safer. Conclusion.

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The Morning Paper

DECEMBER 8, 2019

At the start of November I was privileged to attend HPTS (the High Performance Transaction Systems) conference in Asilomar. On the last morning of the conference Daniel Bittman presented some of the work being done in the context of the Twizzler OS project to explore new programming models for NVM.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 30, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. Another exciting change for 2018: LISA is now a 3-day event, rather than 6 days; check out the Announcement of Changes to Future LISA Conferences for more details. Join us for 3 days in Nashville at LISA'18. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

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Brendan Gregg

DECEMBER 31, 2018

At the Linux Plumber's conference there were at least 24 talks on eBPF. So instead of a static HTML website, JavaScript lets you define mini programs that run on events like mouse clicks, which are run in a safe virtual machine in the browser. Programming in eBPF directly is incredibly hard, the same as coding in v8 bytecode.

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Brendan Gregg

APRIL 29, 2018

USENIX’s LISA conference is the premier event for topics in production system engineering. Another exciting change for 2018: LISA is now a 3-day event, rather than 6 days; check out the Announcement of Changes to Future LISA Conferences for more details. Join us for 3 days in Nashville at LISA'18. Photo by Perry Kivolowitz.

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All Things Distributed

MAY 21, 2018

For example, anyone who wanted to teach a robot how to walk in the age of automation had to exactly calculate every single angle of slope from the upper to lower thigh, as well as the speed of movement and other parameters, and then formulate them as a command in a programming language. Machine learning can make human labor more effective.

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Nick Desaulniers

APRIL 6, 2020

“War stories” in programming are entertaining tales of truly evil bugs that kept you up at night. ” Distracted in a conference grand ballroom, above what might be the largest mall in the world or at least Bangkok, a blank QEMU session has me seriously questioning my life choices. Recent work. No output.

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Strategic Tech

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

61 percent of C-suite executives believe access to developer talent is a threat to the success of their business. Stripe C-Suite Survey As an organisation, there are a whole variety of levers you can pull to significantly improve the quality and speed of your hiring process and notably reduce the costs. Perhaps more surprisingly?—?as

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Enprowess

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Flutter is a cross-platform, open-source framework that functions with a programming language called Dart, developed by Google in 2011. Seamless integration : There is no need to Re-write code because it easily integrates with Swift or Objective C for iOS apps and Java for android. What is Flutter? – An overview. Flutter Overview.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). I also rewrote this in C and called gettimeofday(2) directly: $ cat gettimeofdaybench.c top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

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Brendan Gregg

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

Was there some other program consuming CPU, like a misbehaving Ubuntu service that wasn't in CentOS? As (C) looked like a kernel rebuild, I started with (D) and (E). ## 6. I also rewrote this in C and called gettimeofday(2) directly: $ cat gettimeofdaybench.c top(1) showed that only the Cassandra database was consuming CPU.

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Brendan Gregg

JULY 2, 2021

I see people think like a programmer instead and feel they must start by learning bcc and BPF programming in depth. Then, having discovered everything is C or Python, some rewrite it all in a different language. That will be a quick and useful version 1. BPF up and running!

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John McCalpin

JANUARY 22, 2018

Dr. Damon McDougall gave a short presentation on this study at the IXPUG 2018 Fall Conference ( pdf ) — I originally wrote these notes to help organize my thoughts as we were preparing the IXPUG presentation, and later decided that the extra details contained here are interesting enough for me to post it. An illustrative example: .

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Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. I was looking for a new challenge, so joined the program and ended up getting certified as a “black belt”. He had it up and running on Wednesday.

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Smashing Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website written by John C Barstow. Drew McLellan: He’s the author of the Vanilla JavaScript Pocket Guide series, creator of the Vanilla JavaScript Academy Training Program and host of the Vanilla JavaScript Podcast. How To Maintain A Large Next.js Application written by Nirmalya Ghosh. Transcript.

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