ACCU: Wednesday, February 12 - Amaury Séchet, "Multi-core Software Development Challenges and How D Helps"

John J john.joyus at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 07:44:30 PST 2014


On 02/06/2014 12:48 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> When:      Wednesday, February 12, 2014
> Topic:     Multi-core Software Development Challenges and How D Helps
> Speaker:   Amaury Séchet
> Time:      6:30pm doors open
>             7:00pm meeting begins
> Where:     Symantec
>             VCAFE building
>             350 Ellis Street (near E. Middlefield Road)
>             Mountain View, CA 94043
> Map:       <http://tinyurl.com/334rv5>
> Directions: VCAFE is accessible from the semicircular courtyard between
> Symantec buildings <http://tinyurl.com/2dccgc>
> Cost:      Free
> More Info:
> <http://www.meetup.com/SFBay-Association-of-C-C-Users/events/159565312/>
>
> Multi-core CPUs have become the norm. Most system languages predate this
> hardware evolution and provide poor solutions to problems that
> developers encounter using multi-core CPUs.
>
> The first part of this talk will introduce how multi-core CPUs work,
> what they are good at, and the conditions that may affect their
> performance negatively.
>
> The second part will look at how one system programming language takes
> advantage of multi-core CPUs. The D programming language learns from the
> mistakes of its predecessors and provides a much safer and comfortable
> environment to exploit multi-core machines by its default thread-local
> storage; immutable and shared data attributes; and parallelism,
> concurrency and fiber modules.
>
> Amaury Séchet is the main developer of SDC, a project aiming at
> providing a D compiler as a library. He currently works at Facebook as a
> software engineer.
>


Excellent topic!
Unfortunately, I am very far away. :(

Any plans to upload a video? Thanks.




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