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  1 April 2024

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Overload 181 · June 2024 (PDF)

Contents

• Breaking Bad (Habits).
  Trying to make a change can be difficult. Frances Buontempo considers how to start forming new, better, habits.

• User-Defined Formatting in std::format – Part 2.
  Last time, we saw how to provide formatting for a simple user-defined class. Spencer Collyer builds on this, showing how to write a formatter for more complicated types.

• Reverse-Engineering cuBLAS.
  It’s possible to achieve cuBLAS performance with tensor cores by mimicking SASS instructions. Fabian Schuetze guides us through the process.

• Fat API Bindings of C++ Objects into Scripting Languages.
  How do you expose a C++ object to a TypeScript layer or other scripting language? Russell K. Standish demonstrates an approach using a RESTService API that is scripting-language independent.

• Concurrency: From Theory to Practice.
  Concurrency is a complicated topic. Lucian Radu Teodorescu provides a simple theory of concurrency which is easy to reason about and apply.

• Afterwood.
  What do you do when a software system goes wrong? Chris Oldwood discusses designing for supportability.