Memory as a Programming Concept in C and C++ Frantisek Franek
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Switch to managed ones like C# or even Smalltalk. I will first introduce what constant memory is and how it is accessible in C++ AMP. Posted 06 June 2013 Getting a reference to a normal variable gives you the memory address of that variable, which can be handed to a pointer. Location:Philippines; Programming Language:C; Learning:Java, C++, PHP, JavaScript, Perl, Ruby. C++ allows the use of reference variables while C does not. First, C++ is intrinsically stingy with memory (unlike Java objects, a C++ struct has no memory overhead if there are no virtual functions [modulo word alignment issues]). Reference variables allow two variable names to point to the same memory location. We cannot use these variables in C programming. I'd loved to have had this available ten years ago when I was first blundering through these concepts. However, as a long-time C++ and C# programmer myself, I have to say that even though C++ is often the wrong choice, there are still many, many situations in which it's the only choice: 1) Cutting-edge 3D games. Achingly, heartbreakingly clear, because some hardware incents you to pull out the big guns to achieve top performance, and C++ programmers just are so addicted to full performance that they'll reach for the big red levers with the flashing The facts: The C++11 memory model and what it requires you to do to make sure your code is correct and stays correct. Smaller things run faster due to caching, and are also more . Page 1 of 2 - Confusing use of pointers, dereference and reference operators - posted in C and C++: I am just taking the time to learn C++ and going through the C++ Language Tutorial from cplusplus.com. But in all seriousness, C/C++ should be considered niche languages, not for general purpose programming – and I say that as somebody who's been writing C for more than 25 years. If possible, avoid using C/C++ ( and other programming languages that allow direct memory access alltogether. Currently I am prograamming IOS, Objective-C , using ARC. 2) Graphical and And for any application where you need explicit control over large amounts of memory – for example, if you're building an RDBMS – C#'s garbage-collected approach is a deal-breaker. In this blog post, I'm going to explain how you can make use of a GPU's constant memory with C++ AMP.