I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs. 1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems should avoid using dynamic allocation because the ...

Write program to run in parallel? Yes. Did you remember to use a Scalable Memory Allocator? No? Then read on … In my experience, making sure “memory allocation” for a program is ready for parallelism ...

Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java, ...

In general the maximum amount of memory you can allocate with malloc() is implementation/operating system dependant. In this case why don't you forgo the standard library and allocate memory from the ...

We have some programs at work that are using a lot of memory (1-2 GBs) and we'd like to trim that down. This isn't a memory leak issue - the memory use doesn't increase over time, but rather an issue ...