[MECpp]Item-28 Smart Pointers
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Smart pointers are designed to look, act, and feel like built-in pointers, but to offer greater functionality.
technique
[MECpp]Item-27 Requiring or Prohibiting Heap Based Objects
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Techniques for requiring or prohibiting heap-based objects
[MECpp]Item-26 Limiting the Number of Objects of a Class
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Combining object-counting technique with the pseudo-constructors, we can limit the number of objects of a class.
[MECpp]Item-25 Virtualizing Constructors and Non-Member Functions
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Depending on the different input or dynamic types of function parameters, “virtualization” is a useful technique to construct new objects of different types accordingly, or to conceive of non-member functions whose behavior changes accordingly.
[MECpp]Item-24 Understand the Costs of Virtual Functions, Multiple Inheritance, Virtual Base Classes, and RTTI
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It’s important to have a basic understanding of the cost of some C++ features that can have a noticeable impact on the size of objects and the speed at which member functions execute.
