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1. What is -2 in Hexadecimal? Explain the process? 2. Fixed-sized array vs Linked list? Higher & lower-level pros and cons? Cache friendliness of both? Memory usage? 3. What is a binary search tree? Average search time? Balanced BST average search time? Worst case search time of a Balanced BST and what does it look like? 4. Describe a CPU cache? What does thrashing mean? What are c++ specifiers that specifically affect memory allocation to the cache? 5. Size of some arbitrary class given a number of variables of a specific type? With 1 virtual function? With 10? What is a Vtable? 6. Various Data type memory sizes 7. How do you determine the projection of Vector A onto Vector B? 8. What does a cross product give you? What can it be used for? 9. What is the formula for a dot product? 10. Some trigonometry relevant to vector math
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Oct 28, 2023

1. What is -2 in Hexadecimal? Explain the process? 2. Fixed-sized array vs Linked list? Higher & lower-level pros and cons? Cache friendliness of both? Memory usage? 3. What is a binary search tree? Average search time? Balanced BST average search time? Worst case search time of a Balanced BST and what does it look like? 4. Describe a CPU cache? What does thrashing mean? What are c++ specifiers that specifically affect memory allocation to the cache? 5. Size of some arbitrary class given a number of variables of a specific type? With 1 virtual function? With 10? What is a Vtable? 6. Various Data type memory sizes 7. How do you determine the projection of Vector A onto Vector B? 8. What does a cross product give you? What can it be used for? 9. What is the formula for a dot product? 10. Some trigonometry relevant to vector math

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