SIMD, std::variant and More!

The meeting will take place in Moddi'in. The space is courtesy of SHELL-TECH - Technological Hub, and The Moddi'in Ofek Administration. Refreshments are kindly provided by J.P.Morgan.

Program for this evening:
18:30 Informal networking and mingling
19:00 Updates and News, Adi Shavit
19:10 C4GC featuring gsl::span, Yair Friedman
19:20 Intro to SIMD, Greg Ravikovich
20:05 Break
20:10 std::variant<> Dvir Yitzchaki

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C4GC
Our regular Core Guidelines corner, this time featuring gsl::span
Yair Friedman
Yair is a secure software professional at Intel Jerusalem. He is also modern C++ evangelist and have been coding in C++ for 27 years. Yair is also a Monty Python fan and always expects the Spanish inquisition.

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Intro to SIMD
Brief intro to SIMD, or "another form of parallelism". We will describe in high level the SIMD key concepts, the history of the products available , have a short demo the benefits of using the technology, and describe the challenges for using this approach.

Greg Ravikovich
Software & Tools Director, BrightSource Energy. ~15 years of hands-on development and team leadership for numerous software areas and projects, employing technologies from C++/.NET/WEB.

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std::variant<>
One of the new vocabulary types added to C++ 17 is std::variant.
In this talk we will learn the basics as well as how to use this (and other implementations)
effectively through several examples from different areas.

Dvir Yitzchaki develops LLVM based compilers at CEVA Inc.
Some of his open source work can be found at https://github.com/dvirtz

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Our generous sponsors for this Meetup are SHELL-TECH and J.P.Morgan

Hope to see you all! Please RSVP.