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C++ was designed to be a systems programming language and has been used for embedded systems programming and other resource-constrained types of programming since the earliest days. This paper will briefly discuss how C++’s basic model of computation and data supports time and space performance, hardware access, and predictability. If that was all we wanted, we could write assembler or C, so I show how these basic features interact with abstraction mechanisms (such as classes, inheritance, and templates) to control system complexity and improve correctness while retaining the desired predictability and performance.
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Stroustrup, B. (2005). Abstraction and the C++ Machine Model. In: Wu, Z., Chen, C., Guo, M., Bu, J. (eds) Embedded Software and Systems. ICESS 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3605. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11535409_1
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