Bill’s Dev Blog

About a week or 2 ago, Justin Silverstone posted an article on his blog, “10 tips for optimizing mysql queries“. While not an expert list, the points hold true, however small the points may be. This was posted on digg.com and it was promoted to the front page. A few days later, someone by the [...]

A shallow copy of an object copies all of the member field values. This works well if the fields are values, but may not be what you want for fields that point to dynamically allocated memory. The pointer will be copied. but the memory it points to will not be copied — the field in [...]