ACCU: Wednesday, December 12 - Chandler Carruth, "Clang & LLVM: C++ Compilers Still Matter"

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For once, I can come. So I will !

On Monday, 10 December 2012 at 06:11:03 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> I thought that this is not completely off-topic as Clang 
> appears a lot on D forums. This talk is in Mountain View, CA.
>
> Ali
>
> When:      Wednesday, December 12, 2012
> Topic:     Clang & LLVM: C++ Compilers Still Matter
> Speaker:   Chandler Carruth
> 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
>
> Compilers are among programmers' old-hat tools. We use them 
> day-in, and day-out, but often we don't pay them very much 
> attention. They take our source code, turn it into (hopefully 
> efficient) executables and libraries, and, for most 
> programmers, that is where the relationship ends. But all of 
> that is changing. Today, programmers need rich and powerful 
> tools to deal with the complexities and challenges of the 
> modern C++ programming language and its ever larger and 
> faster-growing code bases.
>
> I'm going to introduce you to a compiler which is changing the 
> way people think about compilers: Clang. What is Clang? What 
> makes it different from all the other C++ compilers out there? 
> Why does it matter? What can you do with Clang? What will you 
> be able to do because of Clang in the next year, the next 
> lustrum, and the next decade? I'll dive into all of these 
> questions and more. At the end of this talk, you will be 
> familiar with Clang, you will want to use it the next time you 
> write C++ code, and hopefully you will think about C++, both 
> language and codebases, with a fundamentally different 
> perspective.
>
> Chandler Carruth leads the LLVM and Clang teams at Google, 
> building better compilers, diagnostics, tools, and more. 
> Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google's distributed 
> build system. He makes guest appearances helping to maintain a 
> few core C++ libraries across Google's codebase, and is active 
> in the LLVM and Clang open source communities. He received his 
> M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, 
> but disavows all knowledge of the contents of his Master's 
> thesis. He is regularly found drinking Cherry Coke Zero in the 
> daytime and pontificating over a single malt scotch in the 
> evening.
>
> Meetings are open to the public and are free of charge.
>
> ---- Upcoming ACCU talks -----
>
> Wednesday, January 9, 2013
> Jon Kalb
> C++ Exception Safety
>
> ---------
>
> The ACCU meets monthly. Meetings are always open to the public 
> and are free of charge. To suggest topics and speakers please 
> email Walter Vannini via walterv at gbbservices.com