Reserving memory moment to moment, as needed, without having to reserve a fixed amount ahead of time. Modern operating systems perform dynamic memory allocation for their own use. They may also ...

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This may be ok for my purposes... I'm not sure if Photoshop's memory allocation function is thread-safe (and there are other hosts that support Photoshop plug-ins...). I'm fairly confident it's thread ...

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Last summer, I wrote a column entitled “Poor reasons for rejecting C++” in which I sought to dispel some misconceptions about C++. 1 Among the many reader comments posted online were some valid ...