Useful books

[David Leimbach]

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 03:59 PM, colin.desmond@btopenworld.com 
wrote:

> Having read some of the recent posts there seems to be a lack of good 
> books on the subject of optimising C   both at design time and during 
> tinkering afterwards.
>
> I have used the following books with great success over the last 
> couple of years and can recommend them:
>
> [1], [2] Effective & More Effective C   , Scott Meyers, Very good for 
> design time optimisations and gaining a thorough understanding of what 
> happens to the code you wirte once the compiler gets hold of it.
>
> [3] Effective STL, Scott Meyers, if you use STL this is essential 
> reading.
>
> [4] Efficient C  , Dov Bulka & Davis Mayhew, possibly aimed at the 
> already written code and how to improve it.
>

I don't think this is aimed at already written code.... for that you 
may want to checkout "Refactoring" published by Addison Wesley.  I have 
this book and I don't think you can help a bad design once its proven 
to be inefficient.  Sometimes you *really do* have to throw crap out to 
make good stuff happen.


> Hope these prove useful.
>
> Colin
>
> ISBN's
> [1]0-201-92488-9
> [2]0-201-63371-X
> [3]0-201-74962-9
> [4]0-201-37950-3
>
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