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August 9, 2008

Dennis Muhlestein
nonic
All My Brain
» How much overhead does C++ bring compared to straight C?

The other day, I had a conversation about putting C code onto an embedded chip. I wondered if it was possible to put C++ code on there. The gist of the conversation was that the C++ libraries had a lot of overhead and the executable size would be too large for the space [...]

by Dennis at 10:01 PM under c , embedded , optimization , programming
August 6, 2008

Dennis Muhlestein
nonic
All My Brain
» 3 Optimizations for speeding Visual C++ compiled code.

For fun, I participated in a programming contest. Instead of describing the process this time, I thought I'd include a function. Can you guess what it does? I'm changing some of the variable names so it isn't obvious.   unsigned short result [dim][dim]; void foo(const string& info1, const string& info2, string& ret_val) {   for (int [...]

by Dennis at 4:40 PM under c , optimization , programming , programming challenge , stl , visual studio