In preparation for my talk at CppCon 2016 last week I decided to have a closer look at the possibility to add vectorization to HPX’s parallel abstractions1The slides for this talk can be downloaded here. The goal was to avoid using compiler specific extensions while enabling vectorization support. At the same time, I wanted to be able to integrate this with the already existing parallel algorithms in HPX, proving again that higher level APIs and best possible performance go hand in hand in HPX.
CppCon
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.