CppCon 2016: Herb Sutter “Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default.”

Name: CppCon 2016: Herb Sutter “Leak-Freedom in C++... By Default.”
Description: Herb Sutter's CppCon 2016 talk on lifetime safety in C++, aiming for code free of leaks and dangling pointers by default. It covers smart pointers, ownership, reference counting pitfalls and deferred reclamation resembling garbage collection.

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Herb Sutter's CppCon 2016 talk on lifetime safety in C++, aiming for code free of leaks and dangling pointers by default. It covers smart pointers, ownership, reference counting pitfalls and deferred reclamation resembling garbage collection.

HN cites it in memory management debates for its treatment of reference counting problems, destructor stack overflows and deferred pointers.

20 Hacker News mentions · 2016–2025

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C, C++, Rust, Go & systems languages

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