C++ Footprint and Performance Optimization

Summary

This chapter discussed preliminaries of working on actual code optimizations. It introduced development and optimization tools and discussed the importance of choosing the correct programming language for a project.

The tools discussed were

• The compiler tool which transforms a program written in a high-level programming language into an executable binary file

• The preprocessor tool that takes care of several processes before the compiler starts its big task

• The assembler tool that translates human understandable mnemonics into microprocessor instructions (executable code)

• The linker tool that takes all the libraries and object files you have created and links them together

• The Make utility tool that aids in checking up on dependencies and ...