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February 2011 - Page 2 of 2 - C++ Team Blog

Concurrent Containers

February 3, 2011 Feb 3, 2011 02/3/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
A recurrent question (well, one of the many) is about STL containers and whether they are thread safe.Taking Stephan’s words here, the reality is that they aren’t, not as a bug but as a feature: having every member function of every STL container acquiring an internal lock would annihilate performance. As a general purpose, highly ...

PDC 2010: Lambdas, Lambdas Everywhere

February 1, 2011 Feb 1, 2011 02/1/11
Diego Dagum - MSFT
(image) Why care about C++0x lambda functions? Syntactically, they are nothing but sugar for function objects. However, they are an essential and enabling sugar that will change the way we will write C++ code more often than most people realize. This talk from last PDC covers what lambda functions are and how to use them effectively, ...