C++ under the Hood Jan Gray.pdf (learning sbout c++ compiler)

author introduction: Jan Gray is a Software Design Engineer in Microsoft’s Visual C++ Business Unit. He helped design and implement the Microsoft Visual C++ compiler. book introduction: It is important to understand how your programming language is implemented. Such knowledge dispels the fear and wonder of “What on earth is the compiler doing here?”; imparts confidence to use the new features; and provides insight when debugging and learning other language features. It also gives a feel for the relative costs of different coding choices that is necessary to write the most efficient code day to day.