Understanding the ins and outs of dynamic memory management is especially worthwhile for C++ programmers. C++ offers many facilities–most notably classes with constructors and destructors–that ...

C++ classes require destructors. A destructor is responsible for de-allocating any dynamic memory that an object uses. If you don't write a destructor for a class a default one is created for you. It ...

Many common Java performance problems stem from class design decisions made early in the design process, long before most developers even start thinking about performance. In this series, Brian ...