📚 Lately, I’ve been diving into C++ Memory Management by Patrice Roy — a book I highly recommend if you’re into systems programming or want to level up your understanding of how C++ handles memory.
One chapter that really stood out to me was Chapter 8: Writing a Naïve Leak Detector. It builds on key concepts from earlier chapters, like:
Chapter 3: Casts and cv-qualifications Chapter 7: Overloading memory allocation operators 📘 Book: C++ Memory Management – Packt 💻 Source code: GitHub – Chapter 8 example
Introduction Code optimization is one of the most important steps in the compiler’s code generation pipeline. Optimization is performed in multiple passes, which are categorized into analysis passes and transformation passes. Analysis passes help the compiler gather information and understand the code structure. Examples of such passes include dominance tree construction and alias analysis, which provide insights into code. Transformation passes, on the other hand, are responsible for modifying the target program to improve its performance while ensuring correctness.