Memory management (also dynamic memory management, dynamic storage allocation, or dynamic memory allocation) is a form of resource management applied...

operating systems, memory management is the function responsible for managing the computer's primary memory.: 105–208  The memory management function keeps...

A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all references to memory...

In computer science, manual memory management refers to the usage of manual instructions by the programmer to identify and deallocate unused objects,...

memory management unit (IOMMU) is a memory management unit (MMU) connecting a direct-memory-access–capable (DMA-capable) I/O bus to the main memory....

buffer overflow, serialization, dynamic memory tracking, and automatic garbage collection. Memory management checking tools like Purify or Valgrind and...

In computer science, region-based memory management is a type of memory management in which each allocated object is assigned to a region. A region, also...

garbage collector.: 18:36  Memory management through the ownership system was gradually consolidated and expanded to prevent memory-related bugs. By 2013,...

In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that...

In IBM PC compatible computing, DOS memory management refers to software and techniques employed to give applications access to more than 640 kibibytes...

the computer memory can be transferred to storage; a common way of doing this is through a memory management technique called virtual memory. Modern computer...

available memory locations without having to resort to any sort of bank switching, memory segmentation or paging schemes. Memory management and address...

In DOS memory management, the upper memory area (UMA) is the memory between the addresses of 640 KB and 1024 KB (0xA0000–0xFFFFF) in an IBM PC or compatible...

of memory management unit (MMU) providing only memory protection support. It is usually implemented in low power processors that require only memory protection...

capabilities is to delegate to the memory management unit (MMU) the responsibility of checking access-rights for every memory access, a mechanism called capability-based...

In DOS memory management, extended memory refers to memory above the first megabyte (220 bytes) of address space in an IBM PC or compatible with an 80286...

table. It is the smallest unit of data for memory management in an operating system that uses virtual memory. Similarly, a page frame is the smallest fixed-length...

and compilation, it's considered to be as performant. V supports 4 memory management options: Use of an optional garbage collection (GC), that can be disabled...

automatic memory management model is that programmers can be spared the burden of having to perform manual memory management. In some languages, memory for...

In computer operating systems, memory paging is a memory management scheme that allows the physical memory used by a program to be non-contiguous. This...

Multi-memory controllers or memory management controllers (MMC) are different kinds of special chips designed by various video game developers for use...

to memory. Cooperative memory management, used by many early operating systems, assumes that all programs make voluntary use of the kernel's memory manager...

For languages that use manual memory management, memory safety is not usually guaranteed by the runtime. Instead, memory safety properties must either...

automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced; such memory is...

Memory segmentation is an operating system memory management technique of dividing a computer's primary memory into segments or sections. In a computer...

A memory buffer register (MBR) or memory data register (MDR) is the register in a computer's CPU that stores the data being transferred to and from the...

Historically, the classic Mac OS used a form of memory management that has fallen out of favor in modern systems. Criticism of this approach was one of...

In DOS memory management, expanded memory is a system of bank switching that provided additional memory to DOS programs beyond the limit of conventional...

In DOS memory management, conventional memory, also called base memory, is the first 640 kilobytes of the memory on IBM PC or compatible systems. It is...

exchange data by sharing pointers. This is to be supported by custom memory management units.: 6–7  To render interoperability possible and also to ease...