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Software Essentials
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Software Essentials

by Adair Dingle
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
436 pages
12h 27m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 4
Memory
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    soware correctness and perfor-
mance. In this chapter, we consider memory management within
a program. We begin with an overview of memory used for running
programs, dierentiating between program stack and heap memory. We
examine the task of copying data, when that data is stored in heap mem-
ory, noting dierences inherent in programming languages. We briey
discuss memory allocation and deallocation schemes, including explicit
deallocation, garbage collection, and reference counting.
Most importantly, we identify memory management details that impact
soware design. Although memory manipulation ...
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ISBN: 9781439841204