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Reducing Memory Allocations
      
        March 11, 2021
      
      
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          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
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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