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The Art of Writing Efficient Programs
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The Art of Writing Efficient Programs

by Fedor G. Pikus
October 2021
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
11h 46m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 12: Design for Performance

This chapter reviews all the performance-related factors and features we have learned in this book and explores the subject of how the knowledge and the understanding we have gained should influence the design decisions we make when developing a new software system or rearchitecting an existing one. We will see how the design decisions impact the performance of the software systems, learn how to make performance-related design decisions in the absence of detailed data, as well as reviewing the best practices for designing APIs, concurrent data structures, and high-performance data structures to avoid inefficiencies. We will explore the following subjects:

  • Interaction between the design and performance
  • Design ...
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