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Mastering High Performance with Kotlin
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Mastering High Performance with Kotlin

by Igor Kucherenko
June 2018
Intermediate to advanced
316 pages
6h 34m
English
Packt Publishing
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Memory management

Memory is one of the essential resources of a computer, and it's essential to manage it properly. Failure to do so can lead to slow performance and bugs such as arithmetic overflow, memory leaks, segmentation faults, and buffer overflows.

The primary purpose of a memory management system is to provide the ability to dynamically allocate the requested size of memory to programs and to release it for reuse when no longer needed. These systems perform management on two levels:

  • Operating-system level
  • Application level

We'll concentrate on the application level because it's the responsibility of an application software developer. The operating-system level is managed with an operating system.

There are two types of application-level ...

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