World Congress 2022 • Jun 16, 2022

The Design and Evolution of C++

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup argues that simple, clean code is your ultimate optimization technique. Discover how C++ evolved to bridge high-level architecture with bare-metal hardware using zero-overhead abstraction.

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