About the Authors

As the authors of the book you are about to read, we would like to introduce ourselves. With more than 10 years of professional IT experience between us, we have worked on vastly different projects for different companies. One of us is currently involved in designing time-critical embedded software, the other is working on Internet and satellite-transmission software for digital video communications.

In our spare time we have been working on a project which involved developing advanced techniques for optimizing C/C++ code for speed and size. We found that while working on professional software, the same kinds of problems and pitfalls kept arising, whether during development of embedded software or even desktop applications. It ...

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