February 2010
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
14h 28m
English
The example programs have shown a variety of alternative techniques to implement the same tasks, such as file copying, random record access, and locking, and it is natural to speculate about the performance advantages of these techniques. Application design requires knowledge of, rather than speculation about, the performance impacts of alternative implementations and the potential performance advantages of various Windows versions, hardware configurations, and Windows features, such as threads, memory mapping, and asynchronous I/O.
This appendix contains tables that compare performance directly on several platforms. There are numerous variations for some tasks; consider, for example, the multiple locking and ...
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