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System Programming Essentials with Go
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System Programming Essentials with Go

by Alex Rios
June 2024
Intermediate to advanced
408 pages
9h 6m
English
Packt Publishing
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14

Effective Coding Practices

Computer resources are plentiful these days, but they’re far from infinite. Knowing how to carefully manage and use them is vital to create resilient programs. This chapter is crafted to explore how to use resources appropriately and avoid memory leaks.

The chapter will cover the following key topics:

  • Reusing resources
  • Executing tasks once
  • Efficient memory mapping
  • Avoiding common performance pitfalls

By the end of this chapter, you will have gained practical experience handling resources using the standard library, and you will know how to avoid making common mistakes with it.

Technical requirements

All the code shown in this chapter can be found in the ch14 directory of our GitHub repository.

Reusing resources ...

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