C++ Performance Tuning - Detailed Course Outline
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Section 1 - Class Design

  • Class Design Boilerplate
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    • Copy Semantics
    • Modifiers and Selectors
    • clone() functions
    • Using mutable and explicit
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Section 2 - Object Storage Management
  • Memory Pools
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    • Design and Implementation
    • Overloading new and delete
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  • Reference Counts
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    • Design and Implementation
    • Copy on Write Techniques
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Section 3 - RTTI (Run Time Type Identification)
  • RTTI Operators
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    • dynamic_cast()
    • typeid()
    • Copy on Write Techniques
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Section 4 - Performance Techniques
  • Efficiency Techniques
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    • Member Initialization
    • Objects as Return Values
    • Eliminating Temporaries
    • Delayed Evaluations
    • Block Moves of Memory
    • Managing Memory
    • Template Specialization
    • Minimizing Virtual Tables
    • Singletons
    • Lvalue and Rvalue Separation
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  • Implementing State Diagrams
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    • Nested Switch
    • State Pattern
    • State Tables
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Appendix
  • Boost Library
  • Operator new and delete formats
  • Standard Exception Classes
    • Bibliography