Episode 259: 🇳🇴 NDC TechTown 🇳🇴 Vittorio Romeo & JF Bastien

ADSP: Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs

In this episode, Conor and Bryce record live from NDC TechTown in Norway! We interview Vittorio Romeo and JF Bastien about C++, training, their talks and more!

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About the Guests:

Vittorio is a passionate C++ expert with over a decade of professional and personal experience. His expertise covers library development, high-performance financial backends, game development, open-source contributions, and active participation in ISO C++ standardization. He is the coauthor of "Embracing Modern C++ Safely" and is a speaker at over 25 international conferences.

JF Bastien has worked on hardware, compilers, security, performance, web browsers, and airplanes. As chair of the C++ language evolution working group and co-designer of WebAssembly, his contributions have helped shape modern software development.

Show Notes

Date Recorded: 2025-09-24
Date Released: 2025-11-07

• camomilla by Vittorio Romeo
• romeo.training
• Roku rostd
• ASDP Episode 136: 🇬🇧 C++ On Sea Live 🇬🇧 CppCast, TLB HIT & Two's Complement!
• TLB.hit
• JAX
• OpenXLA
• [LATTE '22] Chris Leary: X-istentialism: Supercomputers, Silicon Atoms, and the Science Between!
• Guest Lecture - XLS (Chris Leary)
• Project Denver
• Intel pays NVIDIA $1.5B
• NDC TechTown JF Talk
• *(char*)0 = 0; - What Does the C++ Programmer Intend With This Code? - JF Bastien - C++ on Sea 2023
• Keynote: Safety and Security: The Future of C++ - JF Bastien - CppNow 2023
• All the Safeties: Safety in C++ - Sean Parent - CppNow 2023
• NDC TechTown Vittorio Romeo Talk
• More Speed & Simplicity: Practical Data-Oriented Design in C++ - Vittorio Romeo - CppCon 2025
• CppCon 2014: Mike Acton "Data-Oriented Design and C++"

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