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What Should the Average JS Ninja Know about Upcoming JavaScript and Browser Features?

Daniel Steigerwald introduces some of the new JavaScript language features and tools: transpilers, polyfills, and others.

Daniel Steigerwald
on May 25, 2014

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Extreme Speedups and GPGPU: A Tale of Two Practical Uses of Reified Trees

Olivier Chafik discusses how to make a practical use of reified trees in Scala, with two applications: run-time (re)compilation for extreme speed, and conversion to another language (OpenCL).

Olivier Chafik
on May 17, 2014

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Java vs. C/C++ Performance Panel

Hosted by Erik Meijer, who runs the Cloud Programmability Team at Microsoft, the panelists answer questions on C/C++ and Java performance, contrasting the virtues of native vs. managed code.

Todd Montgomery Keith Adams Martin Thompson Gil Tene
on Mar 07, 2014

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C++: The Good Parts

Jordan DeLong overviews the past, current and near future "good parts" of C++'s functional side through the colored lens of his biases.

Jordan DeLong
on Mar 06, 2014

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41:32
Practicing at the Cutting Edge: Learning and Unlearning about Java Performance

Martin Thompson overviews Java's evolution, comparing it with C++'s, discussing the challenges of pushing the performance limits.

Martin Thompson
on Jan 21, 2014

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Getting Pushy: Pushing Data from Server to Browser

David Pollak presents Lift's design and how the same design decisions were applied to Clojure/ClojureScript/AngularJS. Lift is a web framework with support for server-push.

David Pollak
on Jan 07, 2014

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Web Apps in Clojure and ClojureScript with Pedestal

Brenton Ashworth introduces the Pedestal application library as a way to build rich collaborative applications in Clojure and ClojureScript.

Brenton Ashworth
on Jan 02, 2014

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Building an Optimising Compiler for Dart

Vyacheslav Egorov details how some of Dart's language features affected the design of a new JIT Dart compiler and how the V8 JavaScript engine influenced the overall design.

Vyacheslav Egorov
on Jan 02, 2014

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Tuning

Keith Adams shares HHVM insights showing how a system can become very performant if it is well tuned.

Keith Adams
on Nov 27, 2013

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Lift-off with Groovy 2.1

Guillaume Laforge introduces some of the new features in Groovy 2.1: better Invoke Dynamic, DSL-related annotation, grouping annotations, compiler customization.

Guillaume LaForge
on Oct 30, 2013

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C++14 Early Thoughts

Bjarne Stroustrup discusses features that might appear in C++14: braces for copy initialization, return type deduction in functions, generic (polymorphic) lambdas, user-defined literals, etc.

Bjarne Stroustrup
on Oct 10, 2013

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Growing C++ Software Guided by Tests

Alan Griffiths shares the organizational process, the technological challenges and the solutions adopted by a team developing a C++ systems component.

Alan Griffiths
on Oct 04, 2013

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01:12:02