| Memory Management - Algorithms and Implementation in C/C++ (2003) |
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| From Book News, Inc. Written for software engineers, this book begins with a review of the mechanisms for memory hardware management, the Linux and Windows memory subsystems, and how applications request, use, and free memory. The meat of the book presents both manual and automatic memory management algorithms, implements them in C++, and critiques their strengths and weaknesses. Two basic garbage collectors are provided and compared to more advanced collection schemes. The author recommends testing the techniques and code on an expendable machine.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR About the Author Bill Blunden has a bachelor’s degree in physics from Cornell University and a master’s degree in operations research from Case Western Reserve University. He has spent the past ten years performing R&D on enterprise middleware, implementing distributed computing software, and working with security protocols. He is also the author of Virtual Machine Design and Implementation in C/C++ from Wordware Publishing. Book Description Memory Management: Algorithms and Implementation in C/C++ presents several concrete implementations of garbage collection and explicit memory management algorithms. Every implementation is complemented by an in-depth presentation of theory, followed by benchmark tests, a complete listing of C/C++ source code, and a discussion of each implementation’s trade-offs. With this book, you can: Find out how memory is managed at the hardware level by the processor. Discover the ways in which different operating systems take advantage of processor facilities to provide memory services via the system call interface. Understand how development libraries and run-time systems build upon the operating system services to manage memory on behalf of user applications. Learn about five complete memory management subsystems that utilize both explicit and automatic collection algorithms. |
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