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More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Professional Computing) [Paperback]

Scott Meyers
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29 Dec 1995 020163371X 978-0201633719 1

More than 150,000 copies in print!

 

Praise for Scott Meyers’ first book, Effective C++:

“I heartily recommend Effective C++ to anyone who aspires to mastery of C++ at the intermediate level or above.”
– The C/C++ User’s Journal

From the author of the indispensable Effective C++, here are 35 new ways to improve your programs and designs. Drawing on years of experience, Meyers explains how to write software that is more effective: more efficient, more robust, more consistent, more portable, and more reusable. In short, how to write C++ software that’s just plain better.

More Effective C++ includes:

  • Proven methods for improving program efficiency, including incisive examinations of the time/space costs of C++ language features
  • Comprehensive descriptions of advanced techniques used by C++ experts, including placement new, virtual constructors, smart pointers, reference counting, proxy classes, and double-dispatching
  • Examples of the profound impact of exception handling on the structure and behavior of C++ classes and functions
  • Practical treatments of new language features, including bool, mutable, explicit, namespaces, member templates, the Standard Template Library, and more. If your compilers don’t yet support these features, Meyers shows you how to get the job done without them.

More Effective C++ is filled with pragmatic, down-to-earth advice you’ll use every day. Like Effective C++ before it, More Effective C++ is essential reading for anyone working with C++.


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  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (29 Dec 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 020163371X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0201633719
  • Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 2 x 23.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 23,217 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Praise for Scott Meyers’ first book, Effective C++:“I heartily recommend Effective C++ to anyone who aspires to mastery of C++ at the intermediate level or above.”
– The C/C++ User’s Journal

From the author of the indispensable Effective C++, here are 35 new ways to improve your programs and designs. Drawing on years of experience, Meyers explains how to write software that is more effective: more efficient, more robust, more consistent, more portable, and more reusable. In short, how to write C++ software that’s just plain better.

More Effective C++ includes:

  • Proven methods for improving program efficiency, including incisive examinations of the time/space costs of C++ language features
  • Comprehensive descriptions of advanced techniques used by C++ experts, including placement new, virtual constructors, smart pointers, reference counting, proxy classes, and double-dispatching
  • Examples of the profound impact of exception handling on the structure and behavior of C++ classes and functions
  • Practical treatments of new language features, including bool, mutable, explicit, namespaces, member templates, the Standard Template Library, and more. If your compilers don’t yet support these features, Meyers shows you how to get the job done without them.

More Effective C++ is filled with pragmatic, down-to-earth advice you’ll use every day. Like Effective C++ before it, More Effective C++ is essential reading for anyone working with C++.

About the Author

Scott Meyers is one of the world's foremost authorities on C++, providing training and consulting services to clients worldwide. He is the author of the best-selling Effective C++ series of books (Effective C++, More Effective C++, and Effective STL) and of the innovative Effective C++ CD. He is consulting editor for Addison Wesley's Effective Software Development Series and serves on the Advisory Board for The C++ Source (http://www.artima.com/cppsource). He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Brown University. His web site is http://www.aristeia.com.





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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After being a very satisfied reader of the first volume, I bought this second as well. And I'm even more satisfied with this book. There are fewer items than the first volume, but I found they are exactly those items you're looking for after reading a C++ big manual and the first Meyers' book.

The section on exceptions is a very appreciable collection on exceptions topics, difficult to find elsewhere, unless you're a constant reader of C++ Report (where they held a monthly column on the subject).

The section on efficiency is a niece and useful read that let you meet some important consideration as the famous 80-20 rule (a.k.a. 90-10 rule, the "make the common case faster" pattern, and so on) or the Lazy Evaluation tecnique (I've used it extensively since I'm involved on big proportions projects that need this kind of savings).
A special mention goes on the item about the costs of virtual functions, polymorphism and RTTI features. This is about the best account I've found on the subject. The only other one I can think about is Dattatri's in "C++: Effective Object-Oriented Software Construction". You won't believe it, but I've red Dattatri's just a week before I've been specifically asked for this very same topic during an important job interview. Luckily.

The section on Techniques is a source of pure gems: item after item I've discovered how well and widely these topics can be treated. Some will find they are taken from Coplien's book. And that's true. But here they are expanded and more clearly explained.

The last section also will bring some knowledge that will prove to be useful whenever you'll be involved in software design. They well add to those on the first volume.

A very worth buying, and a very worth read, on my opinion.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, but not as good as its predecessor 21 Feb 2007
Format:Paperback
A sequel to Effective C++. Unlike the prequel, which got a third edition in 2005, this has only been updated via the addition of footnotes in a few places (my copy is the 22nd printing from 2006), so some of it feels a bit dated: the items on templates and keywords such as explicit and mutable are somewhat rudimentary.

The material is a mixture of items of a similar level to Effective C++, plus some more advanced topics, like how to find out if your object is allocated on the heap or not, how to prevent an object being allocated on the heap, and the mechanics of the object model, about which C++ users (or the authors of C++ books) seem inordinately fond, at least compared to Java users and Smalltalkers. As a result, the more advanced material has slightly narrower appeal than that in Effective C++ - many of the techniques seem more hassle than they're worth.

That said, a good deal of the material is still universally important, such as exceptions and the new-style casts, which were new at the time of publication, but which are no longer considered 'advanced'. By now, though, this material is covered elsewhere, e.g. in the likes of C++ Coding Standards and Thinking in C++, or in modified form in the third edition of Effective C++. The last item in the book, on the use of the STL, has been superseded by the author's own book-length excursion, Effective STL.

There's also a slight difference in format. The items are in general longer than those in Effective C++. For some topics, it works very well. For example, there's a great treatment of writing a 'smart' pointer and using it for reference counting that takes up 60 pages. That entirely merits the extended format. On the other hand, in some places, the book could have done with editing. Meyers' witticisms are welcome as always, but are sometimes a little too chatty, compared to Effective C++, where the writing is tauter.

It's still a pleasure to read, and this has established itself as another C++ must read, but from the perspective of 2007, it's not quite as genre-defining as Effective C++.
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Excellent stuff! Packed with simple examples, this book demonstrates ways to use C++ that you wouldn't normally dream of. It's also very light hearted, a little witty, and generally easy to read. Definitely recommended for anyone wanting to become an expert in C++.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Not at good as the first one.
Still, good enough for you to consider after reading the first one. It covers different topics that are also useful to know.
Published 13 months ago by J. I. Seco Sanz
3.0 out of 5 stars Shows its age
When I first read this book, ten years ago, I thought it was an excellent book. When I recently took a look at it again, I realized just how much has happened these ten years. Read more
Published on 13 May 2011 by Ratatosk
4.0 out of 5 stars Good for experienced programmers
The book contains the author's views on what is or is not good practice in C++. This book is NOT for the newcomers to C++ so if you're not already well experienced in C++, you're... Read more
Published on 3 Nov 2010 by TJR
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb C++ Book
This is simply an excellent book. There are far too many general C++ text books out there covering every possible thing that can be done in C++ but will little to no help or... Read more
Published on 21 Oct 2004 by Mehrdad Nourshargh
5.0 out of 5 stars Another good 'Effective' book
A more advanced version of Effective C++. The problems covered are trickier (which is why there are 1/3 less topics in a bigger book). Read more
Published on 26 Aug 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars If you program, no matter which language, get this book!
Scott Meyers has a very chatty way of writing, which makes his books very accessible. This is volume certainly no exception. Read more
Published on 11 Oct 2002 by A. Delahunty
5.0 out of 5 stars My Bible of C++
If I could recommend one book for all serious C++ programmers, then this would be it.
Published on 26 Oct 1999
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