Tag Archives: const

Add a const here, delete a const there…

Posted on January 8, 2017 by

I just completed a series of changes that shrunk the Chrome browser’s on-disk size on Windows by over a megabyte, moved about 500 KB of data from its read/write data segments to its read-only data segments, and reduced its private … Continue reading →

Posted in Performance, Programming, Visual Studio | Tagged , , | 29 Comments

Please Calculate This Circle’s Circumference

Posted on June 26, 2014 by

“Please write a C++ function that takes a circle’s diameter as a float and returns the circumference as a float.” It sounds like the sort of question you might get in the first week of a C++ programming class. And … Continue reading →

Posted in Floating Point, Programming | Tagged , , , | 74 Comments