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Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:54:47 +0200

The four days at the ACCU Conference in Oxford are over. Except Günter nobody seems to have blogged the C++ track.

Apart from the discussions and presentations what should go into the next C++ standard (called C++0x and scheduled for 2009), one of the big topics was concurrency and a new awareness that some new ideas are needed. Herb Sutter presented the points of his recent DDJ article. As an example for an exercise simple to understand and yet far from easy to solve he mentioned the Santa Claus Problem:

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