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# Optimized C++: Proven Techniques for Heightened Performance

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## Customer Reviews

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    Lacking the content and depth I was hoping for
  

*by Z***K on Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2017*

A lot of the concepts don't have enough support or their support is not concrete enough. For example, the author describes the cost of function calls, including the hidden pointer to the "this" argument for member function calls that must be written to the stack or a register. For that reason, he encourages the use of static functions were possible. To me that's not enough of an explanation. I would have listed the number of registers available, including a discussion of how it's 32/64 bit and OS-dependent: 32-bit always pass parameters on the stack, 64-bit Windows passes the first four parameters in registers and 64-bit linux/BSD/MacOS pass 14 in registers (six of which can be pointers). -- Without this level of explanation, I found myself questioning the validity of some of the other proposed optimizations.A few concepts I was hoping for are missing, including vectorization (SSE, AVX), which is mentioned only in passing; more depth to floating point arithmetic; better discussion of memory and cache access patterns (the handling of the CPU cache in particular is so vague that there's no takeaway message that I could apply to my code); ...Meanwhile, there's an excessive amount of time spent on a handful of topics, including timers (why are sundials and grandfather clocks given full paragraphs?) and, as others have said, the C++ language itself.I was hoping this book would be a reference guide once I'd finished reading it, but a lot of the material wasn't quite concrete enough for it to be useful. I would highly recommend reading Agner's manuals instead if you have knowledge of C++ already. In some places they're a little bit dated but still solid and very much grounded in computer architecture. (Do a search, they're free online.)

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    Excellent book, but not for the faint of heart.
  

*by D***A on Reviewed in the United States on August 13, 2016*

Best book I've read on C++ since the Scott Meyers canon.  It is well written and PACKED with technical knowledge.  Clearly, Guntheroth is a seasoned developer who has done a good job of selecting the pertinent items about optimization and left out the mundane from this book.  As an embedded C++ developer, the topics are right on point, well discussed, and thoroughly explained.  This book goes deep  and is not for the faint of heart.  I would recommend this book to those who have already read Meyers and Stroustrup books and I would recommend reading this BEFORE reading Alexandrescu.

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    Not deep enough given the subject
  

*by T***O on Reviewed in the United States on October 21, 2016*

It's not bad but it's one of those books you read and at the end don't fully understand what you learned. The best example of this phenomenon is reading a dictionary - you read entire dictionary but still don't have a clue how to speak the language. This happens when connections between concepts are not elucidated enough.

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