title	conference	date
Keynote: Benchmarking - It's About Time	C++Now 2026	2026-05-04
Live Linux clocks come from a kernel-provided VDSO so VDSO avoids syscalls and glibc often uses RDTSC/RDTSCP plus simple math to return nanoseconds… Talk on
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks - A Tale of Two Emulators	C++ on Sea 2025	2025-06-23
Implements the original ZX Spectrum twice: a straightforward C++11 emulator (~3,000 LOC, instruction decoder and codegen) and a modern C++ version that uses… Talk on
Keynote: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks	ACCU 2025	2025-04-01
Implements a ZX Spectrum emulator twice: one in familiar C++11/14 style and one using constexpr/meta/templates plus concepts, modules and coroutines. First… Talk on
What Every Programmer Should Know about How CPUs Work	GOTO Chicago 2024	2024-10-21
Modern CPUs use an in-order front end, out-of-order execution back end and heavy branch prediction, and that matters: a tiny loop in Python runs about 80 ms… Talk on
Compiler Explorer 2023: What’s New?	CppNorth 2023	2023-07-17
Compiler Explorer now hosts 2100 compilers and 50+ languages, runs ~65k lines of TypeScript, and costs about $2–2.5k/month to operate. New, demonstrated… Talk on
What's New in Compiler Explorer?	C++ on Sea 2023	2023-06-28
Compiler Explorer now hosts nearly 2,000 compilers across 50 languages, runs about 3 million compilations a week and costs roughly $2k/month to run. It adds an… Talk on
Compiler Explorer: Behind The Scenes	CppCon 2019	2019-09-15
A web service that started as a shell script now runs on AWS with Node.js and Docker, serving about 1.17M compiles/week, hosting 400+ compilers (≈250 GB of… Talk on
Path Tracing Three Ways: A Study of C++ Style	CppCon 2019	2019-09-15
Three versions of a toy path tracer are implemented and compared: object‑oriented, functional (C++ ranges, tl::optional) and data‑oriented, with source on… Talk on
Lightning Talk: Words Of Power	C++ on Sea 2019	2019-02-04
Argues that creating domain-specific meaning happens both in code and in team habits: at the language level define types with class and use templates to… Lightning on
The Bits Between the Bits: How We Get to main()	CppCon 2018	2018-09-23
Linux executables assemble from per-file ELF sections that the compiler emits and the linker stitches together; using objdump, gdb and readelf the talk traces… Talk on
C++ – The Newest Old Language	GOTO Chicago 2018	2018-04-24
C++ evolution is concrete: modern C++ (C++11/14/17) adds auto and range-for for concise code, move semantics and unique_ptr ownership to eliminate many leaks… Talk on
“What Has My Compiler Done for Me Lately? Unbolting the Compiler's Lid”	CppCon 2017	2017-09-24
A quick history and demo: a 2012 bash script grows into Compiler Explorer, a Node.js site that pipes user code to many compilers (GCC/Clang/MSVC via Docker on… Talk on
Emulating a 6502 System in JavaScript	GOTO Chicago 2016	2016-05-23
A full cycle-accurate emulator of a BBC Micro runs in JavaScript, emulating the 6502 CPU, video chip, timers and interrupts well enough to load and play Elite… Talk on
x86 Internals for Fun & Profit	GOTO Chicago 2014	2014-05-20
Breaks down how x86 maps C/assembly into micro‑ops, showing that branch prediction and the perf measurements matter: a Python branch-heavy loop runs ~102 ns… Talk on
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