C++ Build Insights
Posted on Thursday, Mar 26, 2020
Rob and Jason are joined by Kevin Cadieux and Sy Brand. They first discuss a blog post on Memory Access Patterns and the Clang 10 release. Then they talk about C++ Build Insights, Kevin tells us how vcperf can be used to find places where build performance can be improved in your code. Sy then goes over some of the other recent updates to Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
Show Notes
News
- Vector of Objects vs Vector of Pointers and Memory Access Patterns
- Post-Prague Mailing
- Clang 10.0.0 Released
Links
- Download Visual Studio
- Introducing C++ Build Insights
- Analyze your builds programmatically with the C++ Build Insights SDK
- Have full integration of Build Insights within Visual Studio
Sponsors
- PVS-Studio. Write #cppcast in the message field on the download page and get one month license
- Read the article “Zero, one, two, Freddy’s coming for you” about a typical pattern of typos related to the usage of numbers 0, 1, 2
Guests
Kevin Cadieux
Kevin is an engineer on the MSVC back-end team, working on code generation, optimization, and build throughput. He is the designer and main implementer of C++ Build Insights, the new build analysis platform for the MSVC toolchain. In his spare time he… wait, what spare time? Anyway, he likes to play video games sometimes, and enjoys creative endeavors such as graphic design and writing.
Sy Brand
Sy Brand is Microsoft’s C++ Developer Advocate. Their background is in compilers and debuggers for embedded accelerators, but they’re also interested in generic library design, metaprogramming, functional-style C++, undefined behaviour, and making our communities more welcoming and inclusive.
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