CppCon 2015

Grant Mercer and I had the opportunity to present our talk, ‘Parallelizing the STL’, at Cppcon 2015. We both consider ourselves lucky for being able to attend the conference. The buzz of the atmosphere and C++ community was truly exciting to witness. Attendees were both from all over the world and performance critical industries such as 슬롯사이트 and other finance giants, as well scientific computing fields. As Jon Kalb highlighted in his talk, C++ is receiving a resurgence for several performance related reasons: Moore’s Law is coming to end and the subsequent shift to multi-core architectures, increased computational demands from the private sector, and the rise of power constrained mobile architectures. Combined with the interest in the standardization process, C++17 and beyond, there was a palpable excitement.

HPX and C++ Executors

The STE||AR Group has implemented executors in HPX which, as proposed by the C++ standardization proposal called ‘Parallel Algorithms Need Executors’ (document number N4406), are objects that choose where and how a function call is completed. This is a step in the right direction for HPX and parallelism because executors give more flexibility on how and where task based work should be accomplished and gives the programmer a means to compose executors nicely with execution policies inside of algorithm implementations.