Come to our October 2024 meetup at Tower Research Capital, with food provided by our host!

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Featured Speaker: Mike Shah

Talk Title: The Little Talk of Semaphores -- & a Tour of C++ Concurrency

Description

Our world is concurrent & often we need to write software that models our concurrent world. Luckily, the C++ Standard Template Library (STL) has with each new release provided several mechanisms for writing concurrent software. So whether you need the C++ STL concurrency library to model a concurrent problem, or otherwise utilize concurrency for performance, this talk will provide an overview of the concurrency support library. In this talk, I will give a tour with code examples of the concurrency primitives provided from C++11 to C++23. The audience will leave this talk knowing the difference between mechanisms such as thread, jthread, mutexes, semaphores, latches, & barriers. I'll also go one step further showing how to debug concurrency bugs by isolating & recording the bugs with tools like GDB & UDB. I Promise this talk in the Future will help you provide a foundation of C++ concurrency (oh yes, we'll talk about promises & futures as well!).

Speaker Bio

Mike Shah is currently a Senior Lecturer at Yale University School of Applied Engineering & Science. He primarily teaches courses on computer graphics, computer systems, & building game engines. Along with teaching & research, Mike juggles occasional consulting work doing technical training or working as a 3D Senior Graphics Engineer. Mike also creates educational content for programmers on his YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@MikeShah. Mike enjoys running, outdoors, & enjoying a good local pizza place.