An Overview of the Coming C++ (C++0x) Standard

Google Tech Talks
October 31, 2008

ABSTRACT

The C++ language has started the formal approval process with the recent release of its Committee Draft, i.e. Beta.

This talk outlines the process, the new features, some features left out, and the procedures for formal comments.

Speaker: Matt Austern
Matt Austern is a long-time contributor to the C++ standard, as well as a Google engineer.

Speaker: Lawrence Crowl
Lawrence Crowl is a long-time contributor to the C++ standard, as well as a Google engineer.

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  People & Blogs

[Borbuster]

Wtf? The C++ standard library is very lean and fast, especially compared to stuff like Java.

[perpetualmaniac]

As the guy at 53:39, I have to say in my defense that it was Halloween. And for those curious, I was AwesomeMan, a hypothetical mega man villain that wields the AwesomeGun, which is like a BFG but more awesome.

[LLOORREENNN2]

I performance encourage you to Google, "java vs c++". You may be surprised.

[MrVijfhoek]

Excuse my late response, I should look at dates...

[MrVijfhoek]

Not true, C++ as a native language will always be faster than bytecode languages.

[Marshal Daiamp]

That's muscle not fat

[TheUndeadTech]

don't bother with java

[LLOORREENNN2]

True, but Java is also becoming just as fast if not faster than C++.

[Maklolm]

I hate people who don't close parentheses (they can all go to hell!

[TheBowlcutBandit]

Bjarne Stroustrup said himself the C++ library is a bit messy. And cleaning that up is one of the tasks that has to be done soon. I agree C++ is a bit messy, however I use C a majority of the time.

[sumittechkgp]

It is already less portable (gcc4.7.x), backward compatibility is gone (gcc4.7.x), This Joe struggled many years to use C++ efficiently!. Still I am so hopeful.

[Maklolm]

It will make C++ so much less portable, also C++ is already almost impossible to master completely, how long will it take an average Joe to master C++11??? Also, C++11 will be even more intransparent as to what is going on behind the scenes. Besides, none of those features are really "necessary", given that you can do all those neat things using boost or other libs, except for syntactical sugar. Maybe the template-improvements and "auto" are the only good things about C++11, albeit not essential