Nov 2022 @ Adobe

Come to our inaugural meetup, hosted by Adobe at their Time Square offices!

Featured Speaker: David Sankel
Talk Title: "The semicolon is a lie"

Description
This is a talk about how hardware manufacturers, language designers, and API writers have twisted developer expectations in a never-ending quest for higher performance. We'll cover instruction pipelining, compiler reordering, and speculative compiler optimizations. Finally, we'll look at an incredibly important development in the Linux kernel called io_uring and its implications for the future.

You should walk away from this talk with a greater appreciation for how these crazy machines called computer work, ideas for improving performance, and a view of how programming will evolve in the coming years.

Speaker Bio
David Sankel is a Principal Scientist at Adobe and an active member of the C++ Standardization Committee. His experience spans microservice architectures, CAD/CAM, computer graphics, visual programming languages, web applications, computer vision, and cryptography. He is a frequent speaker at C++ conferences and specializes in large-scale software engineering and advanced C++ topics. David’s interests include dependently typed languages, semantic domains, EDSLs, and functional reactive programming. He is the project editor of the C++ Reflection TS, Chair of the Boost Foundation, and an author of several C++ proposals including pattern matching and language variants.