On the way to perfect computing

Discussion of the assembly language cost of exception handling on the x86 Windows and x64 Windows platform

Herb Sutter – Discussions of concurrency & C++ futures September 2006 meeting of the Northwest C++ Users Group.

Scott Meyers @ NWCPP: Red Code/Green Code – Generalizing Const

C++ compilers allow non-const code to call const code, but going the other way requires a cast. In this talk, Scott describes an approach … all В> he’s been pursuing to generalize this notion to arbitrary criteria. For example, thread-safe code should only call other thread-safe code (unless you explicitly permit it on a per-call basis)