Memory is a fundamentally important resource in modern computers. All the data that your program operates on will at some point or another be stored into RAM to be retrieved by the processor at a later time when required to complete part of your algorithms.
Because of this, it’s vitally important for a C++ programmer to understand how and when your program uses different types of memory. This chapter introduces three different memory spaces, how they can be utilized, and the potential performance impacts that each may ...