David Sankel :: The Semicolon is a Lie

Presented by David Sankel at Core C 2023 conference. This is a talk about how hardware manufacturers, language designers, and API writers have twisted developer expectations in a never-ending quest for higher performance. We’ll cover instruction pipelining, compiler reordering, and speculative compiler optimizations. You should walk away from this talk with a greater appreciation for how these crazy machines called computers work, and a view of how programming will evolve in the coming years. --- David Sankel is a Principal Scientist at Adobe, an active member of the C Standardization Committee and a frequent speaker at C conferences, specializing in large-scale software engineering and advanced C topics. David’s interests include dependently typed languages, semantic domains, EDSLs, and functional reactive programming. He is the project editor of the C Reflection TS, Executive Director of the Boost Foundation, and an author of several C proposals including pattern matching and language variants.