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

[Ali Çehreli]

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

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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 
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