
Event Streaming
CppCast
03/19/21
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Rob and Jason are joined by Alex Gallego. They first discuss blog posts from Visual C++ on Intellisense updates and a tutorial for programming Starcraft AI. Then they talk to Alex Gallego about Red Panda, the event streaming platform written in C++ that's compatible with the Kafka API.
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- MTuner
- Intellisense Improvements In Visual Studio 2019
- STARTcraft - Complete Beginner Starcraft: Broodwar AI Programming Tutorial with C++ / BWAPI STARTcraft
- Git source has a banned.h file that blocks use of certain C functions
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- 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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Reducing Memory Allocations
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Rob and Jason are joined by Arnaud Desitter. They first discuss blog posts on parameter passing, fuzzing and push_back vs emplace_back. Then they talk to Arnaud Desitter about his successes improving application performance by reducing memory allocations found using heaptrack.
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- Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy
- Parameter Passing in C and C++
- Fuzzing Image Parsing in Windows, Part Two: Uninitialized Memory
- Don't blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back
Links
- Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ]
- Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Slides- Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ]
- heaptrack
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- PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
- The Evil within the Comparison Functions
- Top 10 Bugs Found in C++ Projects in 2020
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One Lone Coder
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Rob and Jason are joined by David Barr (aka javidx9). They first discuss Microsoft open sourcing calculator, an update to CMake and the March 2021 ISO Mailing. Then they talk to David about his YouTube channel, One Lone Coder, what inspired him to start it, and PixelGameEngine, the 2D game engine he works on with the One Lone Coder community.
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- Freestanding avr-libstdc++
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- Cmake 3.20.0 available for download
- ISO C++ March Mailing
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