Herb Sutter

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.

Herb Sutter in 2009

Education and career

Sutter was born and raised in Oakville, Ontario, and studied computer science at Canada's University of Waterloo.[1]

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

He joined Microsoft in 2002 as a platform evangelist for Visual C++ .NET, rising to lead software architect for C++/CLI.[2][3] In recent years Sutter was lead designer for C++/CX and C++ AMP.[3]

Sutter has served as the chair of the ISO C++ standards committee since 2002.[4][2][3]

In 2005, Sutter published an article titled "The Free Lunch Is Over"[5] 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.[6][7][2]

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. "WG21 (ISO C++ Committee) Members". isocpp.org.
  2. Redlich, Michael. "QCon New York 2023: Day Three Recap". InfoQ. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  3. Heller, Martin (November 14, 2022). "Beyond C++: The promise of Rust, Carbon, and Cppfront". InfoWorld. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  4. Clarke, Gavin (October 11, 2011). "Sutter: C++11 kicks old-school coding into 21st century". Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  5. Sutter, H. (2005). "The free lunch is over: A fundamental turn toward concurrency in software". Dr. Dobb's Journal. Vol. 30, no. 3.
  6. 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"?
  7. Schirrmeister, Frank (26 September 2019). "Toward A Lingua Franca For Intelligent System Design". Semiconductor Engineering. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
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