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Herb Sutter: Heterogeneous Computing and C++ AMP (AFDS Keynote)
Herb Sutter, Principal Architect with the Visual C++ team, got his keynote posted in Channel 9. He tells more details in his blog.
Introducing C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP)
A few months ago, Herb Sutter told about a keynote he was to delivered today in the AMD Fusion Developer Summit (happening these days). He said by then: “Parallelism is not just in full bloom, but increasingly in full variety. We know that getting full computational performance out of most machines—nearly all desktops and laptops, most game consoles, and the newest smartphones—already means harnessing local parallel hardware, mainly in the form of multicore CPU processing. (…) More and more, however, getting that full performance can also mean using gradually ever-more-heterogeneous ...
The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 24 (June 11, 2011)
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C++ Design Patterns Legend Joins the Visual Studio Team
Erich Gamma will start working this August as a MS Distinguished Engineer.Gamma was lately known for his works in team effectiveness at IBM Rational Team Concert, also associated with the Java language per his key involvement with the Eclipse project. However, he was first known for leading the list of authors of the best-selling book “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” –better known as the Gang of Four book, as its authors’ names were abbreviated as Gang of Four or simply GoF.The GoF book, written in 1994 and winner of a Jolt award, came with many example...
TechEd 2011: Modern Native C++ Development for Maximum Productivity
TechEd 2011 North America took place in Atlanta a few weeks ago. If you missed, its sessions are posted in Channel 9. The one we highlight here, Modern Native C++ Development for Maximum Productivity, was delivered by C++ MVP Kate Gregory. If you are a follower of this blog you may already know Kate. The thing I liked most about this session is that it was not yet-another-talk on new aspects of C++0x (or C++11 if you like, to contribute with all those predictors that C++11 is on its way to become the official name of the recently finished standard). Instead, this talk focused on finding scenarios where these e...
Internal Compiler Error when doing multi-proc compilation (/MP) on Windows XP
Hi! My name is Ulzii Luvsanbat and I’m a Senior Test Lead with the Visual C++ team. We’ve recently received multiple bug reports on VC++ 2010 compiler consistently crashing during multi-proc build on Windows XP and XP SP3 OSes. This was a combination of the compiler and OS API issues that exhibited in internal compiler crash. We have worked on a hotfix and have delivered it to customers who have reported the same issue on forums, MSConnect, and through escalation engineers. The hotfix is available for download publicly, if you’re seeing this issue please feel free to patch the co...
The Visual C++ Weekly Vol. 1 Issue 23 (June 4, 2011)
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BUILD Windows: the Future of the Platform
Last Wednesday, Steven Sinofsky (President of the Windows Division) and Julie Larson-Green (Corporate Vice President, Windows Experience) announced that we’ll be starting a dialog with developers about the next generation of Windows, internally codenamed “Windows 8". We’re very excited to invite you to be a part of the conversation at BUILD, our new developer conference taking place September 13-16 in Anaheim, California. Registration is now open at buildwindows.com.[Learn more about this event at Soma’s blog]
Advanced STL Lectures, Part 5: the Boost Library
In this 5th part of the advanced series, Stephan T. Lavavej digs into the Boost Library. In his words, it's an open source, super quality, community-driven Standard Template Library (STL). Stephan will walk you through a sample application from end to end, using Boost. New to the Standard Template Library? Watch Stephan’s great introductory series on the STL. Have you missed any previous chapter? Now you can watch the whole series (so far):