Reducing Memory Allocations

Rob and Jason are joined by Arnaud Desitter. They first discuss blog posts on parameter passing, fuzzing and push_back vs emplace_back. Then they talk to Arnaud Desitter about his successes improving application performance by reducing memory allocations found using heaptrack.

Episode Transcripts

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News

• Hacking on Clang is surprisingly easy
• Parameter Passing in C and C++
• Fuzzing Image Parsing in Windows, Part Two: Uninitialized Memory
• Don't blindly prefer emplace_back to push_back

Links

• Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ]
• Reducing Memory Allocations in a Large C++ Application - Slides- Arnaud Desitter [ C++ on Sea 2020 ]
• heaptrack

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