Just be aware that some of the manuals there are outdated on some of their content. For example Optimizing software in C++: An optimization guide for Windows, L

Just be aware that some of the manuals there are outdated on some of their content. For example Optimizing software in C++: An optimization guide for Windows, Linux and Mac platforms. A lot of optimizations from this manual are performed by compilers automatically now, in smart pointers section you got information about auto_ptr as most used smart pointer, while it was deprecated years ago, he writes that composite types will almost always be copied out of the function if returned by value, while now we have move semantics and guaranteed copy elision etc.