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Selected Topics

Those three topics are probably the most difficult topics in C++ and the books below might help to overcome those difficulties. See also debugging.

C++ pointers, memory management, I/O

C++ Pointers and Dynamic Memory Management/Book and Disk

Michael C. Daconta / Paperback / Published 1995
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Conquering C++ Pointers

Robert J. Traister / Published 1994

C++ Memory Management

Len Dorfman, Marc J. Neuberger / Paperback / Published 1993

IOstreams

Standard C++ IOStreams and Locales Advanced Programmer's Guide and Reference

by Angelika Langer

• Hardcover: 672 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.38 x 9.56 x 7.72
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co; 1st edition (January 31, 2000)
• ISBN: 0201183951
• Average Customer Review: Based on 15 reviews. Write a review.
   
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: 73,493

Optimization

**** Effective C++ : 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) - Scott Meyers; Paperback.

I recommend to buy a CD copy instead of paper copy (see below)

Effective C++ CD : 85 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours

Scott Meyers / Software / Published 1999
Amazon price: $29.95

Effective C++ CD is the HTML version of Scott Meyers' previous two works, Effective C++, Second Edition and More Effective C++. Additionally, five supplementary magazine articles appear in the collection. There are also links to relevant material on the Web which that been added to the current edition and which did not appear in the print edition. 

See also review in ERCB

????? Optimizing C ++   Full e-text is available  here

Steve Heller / Paperback / Published 1998
Amazon price: $44.99
Average Customer Review:

Paperback - 416 pages Bk&Cd Rom edition (August 1998)
Prentice Hall; ISBN: 0139774300

Please do not believe some trashing reviews at Amazon. You need to question both my opinion and, especially, the opinion of object-oriented fundamentalists. You can easily guest who of the readers are object-oriented fundamentalists from the demands of C++ specific optimization, etc.  Like other high demand cults object-oriented fundamentalists is a pretty dangerous and aggressive sect ;-).  The first and the most important sign of mastery is to know where to stop. That mean you need to know were you need to use OO technique and were is will be just waist of time and resources. Actually the most obvious method of optimizing C++ is to avoid C++ features that are too expensive, especially in time critical loops. So objection that optimizations are related to C not to C++ are simply naive. Actually the best optimization for C++ program is a complete rewrite in C (and may be some TCL) ;-).