Efficient C++: Performance Programming Techniques - Softcover

Bulka, Dov; Mayhew, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201379503 ISBN 13: 9780201379501

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1999

Synopsis

Far too many programmers and software designers consider efficient C++ to be an oxymoron. They regard C++ as inherently slow and inappropriate for performance-critical applications. Consequently, C++ has had little success penetrating domains such as networking, operating system kernels, device drivers, and others. Efficient C++ explodes that myth. Written by two authors with first-hand experience wringing the last ounce of performance from commercial C++ applications, this book demonstrates the potential of C++ to produce highly efficient programs. The book reveals practical, everyday object-oriented design principles and C++ coding techniques that can yield large performance improvements. It points out common pitfalls in both design and code that generate hidden operating costs. This book focuses on combining C++'s power and flexibility with high performance and scalability, resulting in the best of both worlds. Specific topics include temporary objects, memory management, templates, inheritance, virtual functions, inlining, reference-counting, STL, and much more. With this book, you will have a valuable compendium of the best performance techniques at your fingertips. 0201379503B04062001

About this title

About the Author

Dov Bulka has spent fifteen years in the trenches of software development delivering large-scale software products to market. He was the performance architect of the IBM Domino-Go Web server that has powered some of the biggest Web sites ever hosted on the Internet, including that of the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Duke University.

David Mayhew is Principal Architect of StarBridge Technologies, Inc., where he concentrates on interconnection fabrics, peer processing, and PCI bus evolution. Previously, he worked for IBM's Networking Software Division. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Virginia Tech.

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From the Back Cover

Far too many programmers and software designers consider efficient C++ to be an oxymoron. They regard C++ as inherently slow and inappropriate for performance-critical applications. Consequently, C++ has had little success penetrating domains such as networking, operating system kernels, device drivers, and others.

Efficient C++ explodes that myth. Written by two authors with first-hand experience wringing the last ounce of performance from commercial C++ applications, this book demonstrates the potential of C++ to produce highly efficient programs. The book reveals practical, everyday object-oriented design principles and C++ coding techniques that can yield large performance improvements. It points out common pitfalls in both design and code that generate hidden operating costs.

This book focuses on combining C++'s power and flexibility with high performance and scalability, resulting in the best of both worlds. Specific topics include temporary objects, memory management, templates, inheritance, virtual functions, inlining, reference-counting, STL, and much more.

With this book, you will have a valuable compendium of the best performance techniques at your fingertips.

0201379503B04062001

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0201379503
• ISBN 13: 9780201379501
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336