Top "Overhead" questions

Overhead is any combination of excess or indirect computation time, memory, bandwidth, or other resources that are required to attain a particular goal.

C++ exception overhead

Why do embedded platform developers continuosly attempt to remove usage C++ exceptions from their SDKs? For example, Bada SDK suggests …

c++ exception embedded arm overhead
Terrible performance - a simple issue of overhead, or is there a program flaw?

I have here what I understand to be a relatively simple OpenMP construct. The issue is that the program runs …

parallel-processing openmp race-condition overhead
Memory layout of a .NET array

What is the memory layout of a .NET array? Take for instance this array: Int32[] x = new Int32[10]; I understand …

.net arrays overhead