How do you organize medium-sized or larger C programs? Few C textbooks give any insight; they concentrate on exposition of C’s features using small examples. The examples usually fit in a single ...

While reading my "Parallel Programming with MPI" book this evening, I came across an interesting bit on optimizing communication:"Since MPI only specifies the syntax of the function call and the ...

Header fields should be aligned at 32-bit boundaries and so should the C structures that represent them. If your application already is in production and you want to enhance its performance, try some ...

Statements are executable and can have breakpoints set on them. Everything else can't.* Really the non-executable stuff in a header is no different than the non-executable stuff in a source file.