Symantec C++: “Memory Management in C++14 and Beyond”

This month, Symantec's Mike Spertus will speak on "Memory Management in C++14 and Beyond."

Did you know that C++14 is designed to eliminate the need to ever call new or delete in the majority of programs?
• Do you want to know how tuning memory management of their program was instrumental in helping a startup become a high-value acquisition?
• Do you want to know whether STL allocators (http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/concept/Allocator) are worth the hassle and how to use them?
• Are you curious how transactional memory (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/82495/has-anyone-tried-transactional-memory-for-c) will eliminate deadlocks from your programs?
• And what the heck is the story with garbage collection (http://herbsutter.com/2011/10/25/garbage-collection-synopsis-and-c/) in C++?

Find out the answers to questions like these from one of the ANSI C++ committee's memory management experts.

Mike Spertus is a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He has been fascinated by programming languages since the mid-1980s, when he helped design one of the first commercial C compilers for the original IBM PC. As a member of the ANSI C++ committee, he has submitted over 50 C++ standards proposals, including ones that are now part of the C++ language standard. His interest in memory management as a bottleneck to C and C++ development inspired his startup (later acquired by VERITAS) and numerous standards proposals and peer-reviewed articles in the International Symposium on Memory Management.