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 Cehreli via acehreli@yahoo.com

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.

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

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 acehreli@yahoo.com

On 2/11/2014 10:33 AM, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> Reminder...
>
> Ali

Dang, wish I could be there.

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

Both the speaker and the audience were great. I learned a lot. I hope Amaury will publish his slides.

I apologize for not recording the presentation. We will get our equipment soon.

Ali

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.