[svlug] ACCU tonight "Clang & LLVM: C++ Compilers Still Matter" Chandler Carruth

[Walter Vannini]

When:      Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Topic:     Clang & LLVM: C++ Compilers Still Matter
Speaker:   Chandler Carruth
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

Compilers are among programmers' old-hat tools. We use them day-in, and day-out, but often we don't pay them very much attention. They take our source code, turn it into (hopefully efficient) executables and libraries, and, for most programmers, that is where the relationship ends. But all of that is changing. Today, programmers need rich and powerful tools to deal with the complexities and challenges of the modern C++ programming language and its ever larger and faster-growing code bases.

I'm going to introduce you to a compiler which is changing the way people think about compilers: Clang. What is Clang? What makes it different from all the other C++ compilers out there? Why does it matter? What can you do with Clang? What will you be able to do because of Clang in the next year, the next lustrum, and the next decade? I'll dive into all of these questions and more. At the end of this talk, you will be familiar with Clang, you will want to use it the next time you write C++ code, and hopefully you will think about C++, both language and codebases, with a fundamentally different perspective.

Chandler Carruth leads the LLVM and Clang teams at Google, building better compilers, diagnostics, tools, and more. Previously, he worked on several pieces of Google's distributed build system. He makes guest appearances helping to maintain a few core C++ libraries across Google's codebase, and is active in the LLVM and Clang open source communities. He received his M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science from Wake Forest University, but disavows all knowledge of the contents of his Master's thesis. He is regularly found drinking Cherry Coke Zero in the daytime and pontificating over a single malt scotch in the evening.

Meetings are open to the public and are free of charge.

---- Upcoming ACCU talks -----

Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Jon Kalb
C++ Exception Safety

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