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Shreyas Taware
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Optimizing Program Performance
Is a switch statement always more efficient than a sequence of if-else statements?
How much overhead is incurred by a function call?
Is a while loop more efficient than a for loop?
Are pointer references more efficient than array indexes?
Why does our loop run so much faster if we sum into a local variable instead of an argument that is passed by reference?
How can a function run faster when we simply rearrange the parentheses in an arithmetic expression?
Understanding link-time errors
What does it mean when the linker reports that it cannot resolve a reference?
What is the difference between a static variable and a global variable?
What happens if you define two global variables in different C files with the same name?
What is the difference between a static library and a dynamic library?
Why does it matter what order we list libraries on the command line?
And scariest of all, why do some linker-related errors not appear until run time?
Avoiding security holes
What are buffer overflow vulnerabilities?
What is the program stack?
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