L.P. All rights reserved.© 2024 Bloomberg Finance L.P. All rights reserved. Designing a Slimmer Vector of Variants CppCon 2024 September 18, 2024 Chris Fretz Senior C++ Engineer 2© 2024 Bloomberg details my experience in creating a novel solution to an observed problem with memory usage of std::vector> • The talk starts with the motivating use case, considers several candidate Heterogeneous containers like std::vector> are an extremely natural way to represent data across many different paradigms • Naive usage of std::vector> can result in

1#include #include #include <vector> int a[] = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}; std::vector c = {0, 1, 2, 3, 4}; auto main() -> int { std::cout << "C style array: " << sizeof(a) / sizeof(a[0]) sizeof(a[0]) << std::endl; std::cout << "Vector size: " << c.size() << std::endl; return 0; } 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/qm6i25/my_professor_is_telling _us_to_never_use_vectors/ 2more std::vector? 3How do you read a technical book front to back? As a technical editor... 4#include int main() { int cppconEarlyYears[6] = {2014, 2015, 2016

Back to Basics: The Abstract Machine Bob Steagall CppCon 2020 K E W B C O M P U T I N GCopyright © 2020 Bob Steagall K E W B C O M P U T I N G Overview/Goals • Describe abstract machines in general general • Describe the C++ abstract machine specifically • Language goals that drive its design • Role in program development and execution • Important definitions and characteristics • Important components components of the abstract machine, and their relationships • Provide a useful overview of the C++ abstract machine CppCon 2020 - The Abstract Machine 2Copyright © 2020 Bob Steagall K E W B C O M P U T I

Solving Nim by the Use of Machine Learning Exploring How Well Nim Can be Played by a Computer Mikael Nielsen Røykenes Thesis submitted for the degree of Master in Informatics: Programming and Networks Solving Nim by the Use of Machine Learning Exploring How Well Nim Can be Played by a Computer Mikael Nielsen Røykenes c⃝ 2019 Mikael Nielsen Røykenes Solving Nim by the Use of Machine Learning http://www . . . . . . . . . 5 3.4 The Sprague-Grundy Theorem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 4 Machine Learning 6 4.1 Reinforcement learning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1.1 The

1 Shiro support for the Spring Security plugin Table of contents 2 Shiro support for the Spring Security plugin - Reference Documentation Authors: Burt Beckwith Version: 0.1 Table of Contents 1 History 2 Usage 3 Configuration 3 1 Introduction The Spring Security Shiro plugin adds some support for using a hybrid approach combining Spring Security and . It currently only supports Shiro ACLs

1 Shiro support for the Spring Security plugin Shiro support for the Spring Security plugin - Reference Documentation Authors: Burt Beckwith Version: 1.0.0 Table of Contents 1 Introduction to the 1 Introduction to the Spring Security Shiro Plugin The Spring Security Shiro plugin adds some support for using a hybrid approach combining Spring and . It currently only supports Shiro ACLs, since

Language Support Version 5.3.36-SNAPSHOT Table of Contents 1. Kotlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3. Dynamic Language Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . interoperability with existing libraries written in Java. The Spring Framework provides first-class support for Kotlin and lets developers write Kotlin applications almost as if the Spring Framework was a

which use CMake ○ C++ modules support ● Working with the community to improve building software ○ ISO standards ■ Dependency format ○ Pushing forward modules support in other build systems ■ xmake needed to order compilations ● Vendored into CMake for its Unix Makefiles generator ● dyndep support added to ninja, merged into 1.10 (released Jan 2020) 11C++ Modules: Example Target add_library(A) up ○ Object (uniqueness constraint) ○ Source file ○ Work directory ○ Arguments (no “command” support) ● Additional fields ○ For modules build graph ■ Provides (mapping of module name to BMI path)

Language Support Version 6.0.0-M2 Table of Contents 1. Kotlin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 3. Dynamic Language Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . interoperability with existing libraries written in Java. The Spring Framework provides first-class support for Kotlin and lets developers write Kotlin applications almost as if the Spring Framework was a

first high performance Nim - the first high performance language with full support for hot code- language with full support for hot code- reloading at runtime reloading at runtime by Viktor Kirilov backed by Mozilla (although with a lot less...) has a rich stdlib, package manager, docs, some IDE support 19 Feature rundown Feature rundown uniform call syntax (extension methods) - obj.method() OR method(obj) smaller scope for the compiler all the cutting-edge optimization for C/C++ for free out-of-the-box support for tons of platforms easiest C/C++ interop possible exceptions - reusing those of C++ when using