Meeting 29 November 2018
San Diego trip reports
CppCon 2018 Trip Reports
The Jerk Problem is a very simple one: the larger community seems to value technical excellence over all other values. This means that decency – and being polite during such things as discussion or evaluation – is optional. This is how a lot of people conducted themselves: being successful / making money / having influence somehow justifies their ability to be complete blockheads.
Also:
Nobody believes I have dark skin ever when they see my videos or meet me. And for some people, that’s a good surprise (but still a problem). Other people think it’s a bad idea I’m here to begin with, which is much more of a problem.
Better template support and error detection in C++ Modules with MSVC 2017 version 15.9
CLion 2018.3
C++17
CppCon 2018: Chandler Carruth “Spectre: Secrets, Side-Channels, Sandboxes, and Security”
Meltdown, Spectre etc.
Hardware Effects
This repository demonstrates various hardware effects that can degrade application performance in surprising ways and that may be very hard to explain without knowledge of the low-level CPU and OS architecture. For each effect I try to create a proof of concept program that is as small as possible so that it can be understood easily.
- GitHub – Reddit
- Demonstrates: bandwidth saturation, branch misprediction, branch target misprediction, cache aliasing, cache/memory hierarchy bandwidth, data dependencies, denormal floating point numbers, false sharing, hardware prefetching, memory-bound program, non-temporal stores, software prefetching, write combining.
