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Hands-On High Performance Programming with Qt 5

By : Marek Krajewski
5 (1)
Book Image

Hands-On High Performance Programming with Qt 5

5 (1)
By: Marek Krajewski

Overview of this book

Achieving efficient code through performance tuning is one of the key challenges faced by many programmers. This book looks at Qt programming from a performance perspective. You'll explore the performance problems encountered when using the Qt framework and means and ways to resolve them and optimize performance. The book highlights performance improvements and new features released in Qt 5.9, Qt 5.11, and 5.12 (LTE). You'll master general computer performance best practices and tools, which can help you identify the reasons behind low performance, and the most common performance pitfalls experienced when using the Qt framework. In the following chapters, you’ll explore multithreading and asynchronous programming with C++ and Qt and learn the importance and efficient use of data structures. You'll also get the opportunity to work through techniques such as memory management and design guidelines, which are essential to improve application performance. Comprehensive sections that cover all these concepts will prepare you for gaining hands-on experience of some of Qt's most exciting application fields - the mobile and embedded development domains. By the end of this book, you'll be ready to build Qt applications that are more efficient, concurrent, and performance-oriented in nature
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Further reading

High Performance Browser Networking by I. Grigorik, O'Reilly (2013) although aimed more at the performance of browser-based JavaScript applications, this book gives you quite a broad background of the standard UDP, TCP, and HTTP protocols, as well as wireless networking development and standards. Strongly recommended!

The Performance of Open Source Applications, edited by Travish Armstrong (available at http://aosabook.org, 2013) contains case studies on networking performance optimizations in the Chrome browser, Warp server implementation, and mobile networking techniques.

The series of three TCP/IP Illustrated books by W.R. Stevens, Addison–Wesley (2011), is a classic, very thorough, albeit a little dated description of the IP protocol family up to HTTP. It also includes a discussion of the IP protocol stack in 4.4 BSD Linux. For a similar...