C++ Weekly

Just watched the first episode of Jason Turner‘s C++ Weekly, very nice, I can get addicted to that 🙂 I never considered the complexities that a header-only library could introduce (such as having no good place to initialize static variables 🙂

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Executors 101

Executors So what are executors? Executors sit between tasks and their execution-context, the way iterators sit between collections and algorithms. Executors could potentially do many things, to name some: parallelize tasks (over multiple cores for example) distribute tasks (over multiple machines or to gpu’s for example) sequentialize tasks (stitch tasks together over time) prioritize tasks Read more about Executors 101[…]

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x86-to-z80 progress

This is a post on the initial work on the x86-to-z80 translator (or re-assembler as some prefer to call it). The work is currently suspended pending an investigation into creating an actual clang back-end. Here is a link to the original content.

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