C/C++ Users Journal (12 Issues) [Hardcover]

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• Hardcover
• Publisher: United Business Media
• ISBN-10: 5552545176
• ISBN-13: 978-5552545179
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Vitamin C - brain food, October 1, 2005

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This review is from: C/C++ Users Journal (12 Issues) (Hardcover)

If you make your living way down inside C/C++ code, at any level, this is probably going to make your life a lot easier. Maybe not with this month's issue, and maybe not with the one after that, but sooner or later. This is tips'n'tricks for everyone from the guy programming the processor that fires your car's airbag on up to the stud at the server farm.

It addresses the standard problems - no, sorting is not a completely solved problem - with research from the academic journals. It addresses the memory model of machines today and machines to come. Here's a hint: if you don't know what "volatile" means, some of these articles are going to buzz right by you. It even covers that very strange world of micros, where floating point is A) impossible and B) compulsory. If you want to run with the big dogs, learn "fixed point," and learn that it's not the only alternative arithmetic out there.

This is a great one for the coding tactician. You'll save every issue because some day, you or the guy in the cube next to yours will need exactly what you just saw here. If you're a beginning coder, you've got you little bag of tricks. The grizzled guy that comes in when everyone else got lost just has a bigger bag. This helps make the bag bigger.

//wiredweird

BTW: This review applies to the Journal as a magazine, not to this specific bound set. If Amazon ever lists the magazine, I'll move thr review.