Technology – Page 15

Variant managment – Macros vs. Branching

Via Macros A way to realise different variants is to work with variant flags within the code itself. The big

1. Main thread – Gets created during startup – It’s possibly the only thread – Normally sets up the app/program

After developing a feature or fix you want to merge that branch onto the parent branch. There are two main

Most guys would say “No, but C++ has pointers” and they are right, but not in the way they assume

… is user for unidirectional inter process communication on a single machine. In the following example a pipe gets created

Creator: Yihui Xiong The red szenario – Using ALSA without any sound server – Just one source per sink is

The shell provides the user a way to interact with the OS. It’s called shell, because it’s the outermost layer

Windows You always have to create a totally new process via a CreateProcess(…) call. Linux You can either just copy

Axle vs. Shaft Both serve the purpose of supporting rotating machine parts. Axles do not transmit torque. Shafts transmit torque.

Since C++11 we can now use move semantics (move constructor, move assignment operator). They provide a perfomance boost over copy