Reserving memory for specific purposes. At startup, operating systems and applications reserve fixed amounts of memory (RAM) and may allocate more as needed. Although a virtual memory function ...

This may be ok for my purposes... I'm not sure if Photoshop's memory allocation function is thread-safe (and there are other hosts that support Photoshop plug-ins...). I'm fairly confident it's thread ...

“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system's unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

Last summer, I wrote a column entitled “Poor reasons for rejecting C++” in which I sought to dispel some misconceptions about C++. 1 Among the many reader comments posted online were some valid ...

A Memory Leak is a misplacement of resources in a computer program due to faulty memory allocation. It happens when a RAM location not in use remains unreleased. A memory leak is not to be confused ...