It's About Time

Slides for my C++Now 2026 closing keynote, "It's About Time": a talk about benchmarking, profiling, and the art of knowing how long things take.

Schedule link · May 4-8, Aspen, Colorado.

Running locally

npm install
make -C research        # builds the BBC Micro raster demo (needs beebasm on PATH)
npm start -- --port 8003 --host $(hostname)

Press S in the browser for speaker notes.

Building

npm run build

Output goes to dist/. Deployed to GitHub Pages automatically on push to main.

Structure

Slides live in sections/*.html, included into index.html at build time by a small Vite plugin. Speaker notes and the full talk outline are in notes.md. Research material and the BBC Micro demo source are in research/.

License

Copyright (c) 2026 Hudson River Trading LLC. Released under the BSD 2-Clause License; see LICENSE. Open-source contact: opensource@hudson-trading.com.