Herb Sutter

Herb Sutter in 2009

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 Oakville, Ontario, and studied computer science at Canada's University of Waterloo.[1][third-party source needed]

From 1995 to 2001 he was chief technology officer at PeerDirect where he designed the PeerDirect database replication engine.[1][third-party source needed]

He joined Microsoft in 2002[2] as a platform evangelist for Visual C++ .NET,[citation needed] rising to lead software architect for C++/CLI.[3][4] In recent years Sutter was lead designer for C++/CX and C++ AMP.[4] In November 2024, after 22 years at Microsoft, Sutter left to join Citadel Securities.[5]

Sutter has served as the chair of the ISO C++ standards committee since 2002.[6][3][4]

In 2005, Sutter published an article titled "The Free Lunch Is Over"[7] that claimed that microprocessor 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.[8][9][3]

Bibliography

  • Exceptional C++ (Addison-Wesley, 2000, ISBN 0-201-61562-2)
  • More Exceptional C++ (Addison-Wesley, 2002, ISBN 0-201-70434-X)
  • Exceptional C++ Style (Addison-Wesley, 2005, ISBN 0-201-76042-8)
  • C++ Coding Standards (together with Andrei Alexandrescu, Addison-Wesley, 2005, ISBN 0-321-11358-6)

References

  1. ^ a b "WG21 (ISO C++ Committee) Members". isocpp.org.
  2. ^ Redmond, Wash (March 13, 2002). "ISO/ANSI C++ Standards Committee Secretary Herb Sutter Joins Microsoft's Developer Division". news.microsoft.com. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Redlich, Michael. "QCon New York 2023: Day Three Recap". InfoQ. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  4. ^ a b c Heller, Martin (November 14, 2022). "Beyond C++: The promise of Rust, Carbon, and Cppfront". InfoWorld. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  5. ^ Sutter, Herb (2024-11-11). "A new chapter, and thoughts on a pivotal year for C++". Sutter’s Mill. Retrieved 2024-11-20.
  6. ^ Clarke, Gavin (October 11, 2011). "Sutter: C++11 kicks old-school coding into 21st century". Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  7. ^ Sutter, H. (2005). "The free lunch is over: A fundamental turn toward concurrency in software". Dr. Dobb's Journal. Vol. 30, no. 3.
  8. ^ Miller, Paul (June 23, 2016). "Why would you want a 1,000 core processor?". The Verge. Retrieved 12 September 2023. Are you familiar with the highly influential piece for programmers by Herb Sutter called "The Free Lunch Is Over"?
  9. ^ Schirrmeister, Frank (26 September 2019). "Toward A Lingua Franca For Intelligent System Design". Semiconductor Engineering. Retrieved 12 September 2023.