The Old New Thing
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03/05/21
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Rob and Jason are joined by Raymond Chen from Microsoft. They first talk about Herb Sutter's virtual ISO Plenary Trip Report and some new features voted into the C++23 draft. Then they talk to Raymond Chen from Microsoft about his career working on Windows and the Old New Thing blog.
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- Raymond’s blog The Old New Thing. Here’s the post that made his July 4 family picnic a little more stressful
- Raymond is managing editor of the Windows Universal Samples and the Windows Classic Samples repos on GitHub.
- Here’s a YouTube playlist of Raymond’s One Dev Minute short videos.
- Raymond can be found on GitHub as @oldnewthing, and his necktie’s Twitter account is @ChenCravat.
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Vcpkg Registries
February 26, 2021
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Rob and Jason are joined by Nicole Mazzuca from Microsoft. They first talk about a differential equation library, and modules support in build2 and meson. Then they talk to Nicole from Microsoft's vcpkg team about some new features in vcpkg to enable teams to host their own libraries.
News
- Solving Differential Equations with LLVM
- Complete C++20 Modules Support with GCC in build2
- Meson Build System 0.57.0 is out w/ experimental suport for C++ Modules, Qt6, ThinLTO and more
Links
- Registries: Bring your own libraries to vcpkg
- Dependency Confusion: How I Hacked Into Apple, Microsoft and Dozens of Other Companies
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Reducing Memory Allocations
March 12, 2021
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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.
Episode Transcripts
News
- 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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