Efficient C/C++ Programming: Smaller, Faster, Better/Replacement

by Steve Heller

This book provides C and C++ programmers with invaluable tools for optimizing their code to run "large problems" on "small machines." Optimization is presented at the algorithmic level, and explanations are provided for how to re-think and re-cast applications to make them work more efficiently. Includes a disk containing source code for all examples found in the book.

415 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1995

About the author

Steve Heller (b. 1949) is a Texas-based programmer and author. He is best known for his books on C++, and particularly for his dialogical treatment of the language in his 2002 textbook C++: A Dialogue. Heller earned his bachelor's degree at Chicago's Shimer College, where he enrolled via early entrance. (from Shimer College Wiki)