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Herb Sutter is a prominent C++ expert. He is also an author of several books on C++ and was a columnist for Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Education and career

Sutter was born and raised in

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, and studied computer science at Canada's

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. From 1995 to 2001 he was chief technology officer at PeerDirect where he designed the PeerDirect database replication engine. He joined

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in 2002 as a platform evangelist for

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, rising to lead software architect for C++/CLI. In recent years Sutter was lead designer for C++/CX and C++ AMP. In November 2024, after 22 years at Microsoft, Sutter left to join Citadel Securities. Sutter has served as the chair of the ISO C++ standards committee since 2002. In 2005, Sutter published an article titled "The Free Lunch Is Over" that claimed that

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serial-processing speed was reaching a physical limit leading to two main consequences: * Processor manufacturers would focus on products that better support multithreading (such as multi-core processors), and * Software developers would be forced to develop massively multithreaded programs as a way to better use such processors. The article is seen as highly influential in subsequent system design.

Bibliography

* ''Exceptional C++'' (

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, 2000, ) * ''More Exceptional C++'' (

, 2002, ) * ''Exceptional C++ Style'' (

, 2005, ) * ''C++ Coding Standards'' (together with

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, 2005, )

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