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   overhead

   adverb

   • 1. above the level of the head; in the sky: "a helicopter buzzed overhead"

   adjective

   • 1. situated above the level of the head: "the sun was directly overhead"
   • 2. (of a driving mechanism) above the object driven: "an overhead cam four-cylinder engine"
   • 3. (of a cost or expense) incurred in the upkeep or running of a plant, premises, or business and not attributable to individual products or items: "the company has very high overhead costs"

   noun

   • 1. an overhead cost or expense: "overheads, such as lighting, equipment, and any little extras, are paid for out of a centralized fund"
   • 2. a transparency designed for use with an overhead projector: "software for producing slides, charts, and overheads"
   • 3. an overhead compartment, especially on an aircraft: "passengers get up to fiddle with their luggage in the overheads"

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2. stackoverflow.com › questions › 372511What is the object oriented programming computing overhead cost?

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 372511

   Dec 16, 2008 · 1. Actual C++ OO memory overhead is one pointer (4-8 bytes, depending) per object with virtual methods. However, as mentioned in other answers, the default memory allocation overhead from dynamic allocation is likely to be significantly greater than this.

3. stackoverflow.com › questions › 9257989c# - Defining type aliases - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 9257989

   Feb 13, 2012 · Yes you can do that, however you need to specify the full types, i.e. the definition becomes: using ComplexList = System.Collections.Generic.List<System.Tuple<int,string,int>>; This is specified per file, much like the using directives for namespaces. nitpick: Conventionally, a type in .NET is PascalCased.

4. stackoverflow.com › questions › 1277627c++ - Overhead of pthread mutexes? - Stack Overflow

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 1277627

   Aug 14, 2009 · 3. I can tell you from Windows, that a mutex is a kernel object and as such incurs a (relatively) significant locking overhead. To get a better performing lock, when all you need is one that works in threads, is to use a critical section. This would not work across processes, just the threads in a single process.

5. stackoverflow.com › questions › 34740335Overhead of static constants when included into many translation...

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 34740335

   Jan 12, 2016 · In a header file, global constants can be declared and (pre)defined in a single line. // constants.h. namespace Constant{. static const unsigned int framerate = 60; static const char * const windowName = "Test"; static const unsigned char * const cursorBitmap = { lots of data }; } I like this format because it lets me keep my constants in one ...

6. stackoverflow.com › questions › 42907024cuda - What factors effect the overhead of dynamic parallelism...

   stackoverflow.com › questions › 42907024

   What are the factors contributing or affecting the amount of this overhead? e.g. size of the kernel code, occupancy of the SM where the kernel is being launched, size of the kernel's arguments etc. For the sake of this question, lets be inclusive, and define "overhead" as the sum of the following time intervals: Start: An SM sees the launch ...