- Friday, October 31, 2008, 12:28
- Operating Systems
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Memory Management Problems
The basic problem in managing memory is knowing when to keep the data it contains, and when to throw it away so that the memory can be reused. This sounds easy, but is, in fact, such a hard problem that it is an entire field of study in its own right. In an ideal world, most programmers wouldn’t have to worry about ...
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- Friday, October 31, 2008, 12:20
- Operating Systems
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Definition
Memory management is a complex field of computer science and there are many techniques being developed to make it more efficient. This guide is designed to introduce you to some of the basic memory, XMS, HIMEM.SYS, and the like), then you won’t find The Memory Management Reference very management issues that programmers face.
Some platforms have specific problems in dealing with memory, which are not covered ...
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