• 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 called...
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    Memory management (also dynamic memory management, dynamic storage allocation, or dynamic memory allocation) is a form of resource management applied...
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    automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced; such memory is...
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    deallocated all at once. This is also known as a region; see region-based memory management. A simple memory pool module can allocate, for example, three...
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  • C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing manual memory management for dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions...
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    A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all references to memory...
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  • the garbage collector. These areas are instead managed using region-based memory management. The latest specification, 2.0, supports direct device access...
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  • Massachusetts and Virginia Region (model checking), a convex polytope data structure Region-based memory management, a memory management technique in which allocations...
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  • implements a region-based memory management scheme. Obstack code typically provides C macros which take care of memory allocation and management for the user...
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    In DOS memory management, expanded memory is a system of bank switching that provided additional memory to DOS programs beyond the limit of conventional...
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    assignment. It has no global garbage collected heap. Instead, region-based memory management is used throughout. Types can be recursive, so long as the recursive...
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    behaviour in real-time systems. Ada supports a limited form of region-based memory management, and in Ada, destroying a storage pool also destroys all the...
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    In IBM PC compatible computing, DOS memory management refers to software and techniques employed to give applications access to more than 640 kibibytes...
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  • virtualization feature of the Solaris operating system Zone, a region in region-based memory management Zone (convex polytope), in model checking, a type of difference...
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  • implementation based very closely on the Definition, integrating a garbage collector (which can be disabled) and region-based memory management with automatic...
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    length. If a region of memory lies on the thread's stack, that memory is said to have been allocated on the stack, i.e. stack-based memory allocation (SBMA)...
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  • operating systems, memory management is the function responsible for managing the computer's primary memory.: 105–208  The memory management function keeps...
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  • the garbage collector. These areas are instead managed using region-based memory management. The Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) is a set of interfaces...
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  • 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...
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    In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that...
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  • 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...
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  • Time-based prospective memory is a type of prospective memory in which remembrance is triggered by a time-related cue that indicates that a given action...
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  • still preferable. Memory-mapped I/O is preferred in IA-32 and x86-64 based architectures because the instructions that perform port-based I/O are limited...
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  • Henglein and Mossin's binding-time analysis and the Tofte–Talpin region-based memory management system. As these systems assume the expressions have already...
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    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...
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  • two types of prospective memory: event-based and time-based prospective memory. Event-based prospective memory involves remembering to perform certain...
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    as CPUs and GPUs, with shared memory), the memory management unit (MMU) of the CPU and the input–output memory management unit (IOMMU) of the GPU have...
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  • memory, any reserved regions and may also provide other details specific to the architecture. In virtual memory implementations and memory management...
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    flash drive (also thumb drive, memory stick, and pen drive/pendrive) is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface...
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    Code segment (category Memory management)
    instructions. The term "segment" comes from the memory segment, which is a historical approach to memory management that has been succeeded by paging. When a...
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