Expectations and Exceptions

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08/02/18

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Rob and Jason are joined by Sy Brand to discuss his upcoming CppCon talks covering exceptions, value wrappers, debuggers and more.

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Chris spends his days working on ComputeCpp, Codeplay’s implementation of SYCL, a Khronos Standard for heterogeneous programming in C++; the Khronos implementation for the Parallel STL (using SYCL); and researching Parallel Ranges, which is an attempt to fuse ranges together with the parallel STL.

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