C++ Memory Management

Part 4: Writing Generic Containers (and a Bit More)

In this part, we will focus on writing efficient generic containers, doing so through explicit memory management, then through implicit memory management, and finally, through allocators, under the various guises these types have held over the years. Leveraging our deeper understanding of memory management techniques and facilities, we will express two types of containers (one that uses contiguous memory and another that uses linked nodes) in ways that can sometimes be much more efficient than a simpler, more naïve implementation would be. We end this part with a look to the near future in memory management with C++.

This part has the following chapters:

• Chapter 12, Writing Generic Containers ...