Hi, I’m Jerry Goodwin from the Visual C++ code generation and optimization team, with a couple quick tips on using Whole Program Optimization, also referred to as Link Time Code Generation (LTCG). If you’re writing native C++ code, you can typically speed up your optimized code by about another 3-4% by adding the /GL flag to your ...
Hi, I am Weidong Huang, a Software Design Engineer in Test in the Visual C++ group. Today I am going to talk about MFC’s support of Restart Manager functionality -- a very amazing feature in VS2010. What is Restart Manager? Restart Manager is a new feature introduced by Microsoft’s Windows Vista operating system. It can help...
Part 1 of this series covered lambdas, auto, and static_assert. Today, I'm going to talk about rvalue references, which enable two different things: move semantics and perfect forwarding. This post will be long, because I'm going to explain how rvalue references work in great detail. They're initially very confusing because they distinguish l...
