Best of C++ — January 2025

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   Habits To Start Now To Become a Healthy Senior Coder

   Kate Gregory's keynote at the Toronto CppNorth conference emphasized the importance of adopting healthy habits early to ensure a healthy old age as a programmer. Sharing insights from research and her personal experiences, Gregory provided practical advice on exercise, diet, hearing protection, and managing stress. She highlighted the benefits of a positive mindset on aging and encouraged making friends and finding a purpose at any age. Her talk aimed to inspire programmers to take proactive steps for long-term well-being.

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   C/C++ Community·1y

   C++ Help

   A beginner learning C++ tried to compute a large number by doubling a value repeatedly but encountered an integer overflow issue, which caused an incorrect result. The post seeks advice from the developer community on how to store and compute extremely large values in C++, as the standard 'unsigned long long int' data type was insufficient to handle the computation.

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   C/C++ Community·1y

   Free resource to learn C/C++ especially for Linux Kernel development

   Looking for recommended resources to learn C/C++ specifically for Linux Kernel development, with a basic understanding of the syntax for both languages.

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   evanwashere/mitata: benchmark tooling that loves you ❤️

   Mitata is a versatile benchmarking tool that supports JavaScript and C++ environments. It facilitates accurate and meaningful benchmarks by providing functionalities like automated garbage collection, concurrent execution, and hardware counter support. It also has features to prevent code optimization side-effects, making it suitable for micro-benchmarking and performance analysis.

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