ACCU: Wednesday, February 12 - Amaury Séchet, "Multi-core Software Development Challenges and How D Helps"
Ali Çehreli
acehreli at yahoo.com
Tue Feb 11 10:33:16 PST 2014
Reminder...
Ali
On 02/05/2014 09:48 PM, 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.
>
> ---- Upcoming ACCU meetings -----
>
> Wednesday, February 26 2014
> Workshop
>
> Wednesday, March 12, 2014
> Sumant Tambe
> "Fun with Functions The C++14-style"
>
> Wednesday, March 26, 2014
> Workshop
>
> ---------
>
> The ACCU meets twice monthly. Meetings are always open to the public and
> are free of charge. To suggest topics and speakers please email Ali
> Cehreli via acehreli at yahoo.com
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