After each ISO C++ meeting, I post a trip report update to my blog summarizing what’s new as of that meeting with a drill-down into some highlights. But wouldn’t it be handy to have an up-to-date summary scorecard with a snapshot of all proposals’ status to date? Indeed it would, and so today someone asked [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Where to find the state of ISO C++ evolution
Posted in C++ on April 23, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Quad-core a "waste of electricity"?
Posted in C++, Concurrency, Hardware, Software Development on April 18, 2008 | 26 Comments »
Jeff Atwood wrote:
In my opinion, quad-core CPUs are still a waste of electricity unless you’re putting them in a server. Four cores on the desktop is great for bragging rights and mathematical superiority (yep, 4 > 2), but those four cores provide almost no benchmarkable improvement in the type of applications most people use. Including [...]
Usability: Watch out for those non-errors that start with “ER”
Posted in Friday Thoughts on April 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I had a nice lesson in transaction codes. I did a happy little online transaction, and then the confirmation screen came up with what at first glance looked like an error. It startled me, until I read more closely:
Thank you. Your transaction has been placed and received by SuperMondoCorp.
Transaction Confirmation Number: ER6661234567
“Yikes!” thought I to myself, [...]
Effective Concurrency: Interrupt Politely
Posted in C++, Concurrency, Software Development on April 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The latest Effective Concurrency column, “Interrupt Politely”, just went live on DDJ’s site, and will also appear in the print magazine. From the article:
Violence isn’t the answer.
We want to be able to stop a running thread or task when we discover that we no longer need or want to finish it. As we saw [...]
Cringe not: Vectors are guaranteed to be contiguous
Posted in C++ on April 7, 2008 | 20 Comments »
Andy Koenig is the expert’s expert, and I rarely disagree with him. And, well, when I do disagree I’m invariably wrong… but there’s a first time for everything, so I’ll take my chances one more time.
I completely agree with the overall sentiment of Andy’s blog entry today:
I spend a fair amount of time reading (and [...]
Visual C++ 2008 Feature Pack now available
Posted in C++ on April 7, 2008 | 8 Comments »
Back in November, I reported that we’d be shipping Visual C++ 2008 that month (we did!) and that we’d soon thereafter be doing the “agile thing” and shipping a major update mere months later, instead of waiting two years between releases per our prior tradition. I wrote:
The update is expected to be available in beta [...]
