Re: ACCU: Wednesday, February 12 - Amaury Séchet, Multi-core Software Development Challenges and How D Helps
On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 02:24:21 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 2/11/2014 10:33 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Reminder... Ali Dang, wish I could be there. I had a lot of question, so I conclude I got people really interested or really confused. I'll share the slides when I have some time to take care of it.
Re: ACCU: Wednesday, February 12 - Amaury Séchet, Multi-core Software Development Challenges and How D Helps
On 2/11/2014 10:33 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote: Reminder... Ali Dang, wish I could be there.
Re: ACCU: Wednesday, February 12 - Amaury Séchet, Multi-core Software Development Challenges and How D Helps
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 acehr...@yahoo.com
Re: ACCU: Wednesday, February 12 - Amaury Séchet, Multi-core Software Development Challenges and How D Helps
On 02/07/2014 07:44 AM, John J wrote: Unfortunately, I am very far away. :( Any plans to upload a video? Thanks. Recording or streaming is always requested but we don't have dedicated people or equipment to record the talks. I can't promise yet but I will let you know if we have a recording. Ali
Re: ACCU: Wednesday, February 12 - Amaury Séchet, Multi-core Software Development Challenges and How D Helps
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.
ACCU: Wednesday, February 12 - Amaury Séchet, Multi-core Software Development Challenges and How D Helps
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 acehr...@yahoo.com
