Memory management (also dynamic memory management, dynamic storage allocation, or dynamic memory allocation) is a form of resource management applied...

A memory management unit (MMU), sometimes called paged memory management unit (PMMU), is a computer hardware unit that examines all memory references on...

operating systems, memory management is the function responsible for managing the computer's primary memory.: 105–208  The memory management function keeps...

In computer science, manual memory management refers to the usage of manual instructions by the programmer to identify and deallocate unused objects,...

In IBM PC compatible computing, DOS memory management refers to software and techniques employed to give applications access to more than 640 kibibytes...

memory management unit (IOMMU) is a memory management unit (MMU) connecting a direct-memory-access–capable (DMA-capable) I/O bus to the main memory....

In 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...

the computer memory can be transferred to storage; a common way of doing this is through a memory management technique called virtual memory. Modern computer...

In computing, virtual memory, or virtual storage, is a memory management technique that provides an "idealized abstraction of the storage resources that...

In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves...

In DOS memory management, extended memory refers to memory above the first megabyte (220 bytes) of address space in an IBM PC or compatible with an 80286...

to memory. Cooperative memory management, used by many early operating systems, assumes that all programs make voluntary use of the kernel's memory manager...

handling using the standard library is code-intensive, with explicit memory management required. The language does not directly support object orientation...

of memory management unit (MMU) providing only memory protection support. It is usually implemented in low power processors that require only memory protection...

science, a memory leak is a type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in a way that memory which is...

automatic memory management model is that programmers can be spared the burden of having to perform manual memory management. In some languages, memory for...

Multi-memory controllers or memory management controllers (MMC) are different kinds of special chips designed by various video game developers for use...

the garbage collector. Memory management through the ownership system was gradually consolidated and expanded to prevent memory-related bugs. By 2013,...

capabilities is to delegate to the memory management unit (MMU) the responsibility of checking access-rights for every memory access, a mechanism called capability-based...

In DOS memory management, expanded memory is a system of bank switching that provided additional memory to DOS programs beyond the limit of conventional...

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...

Memory pools, also called fixed-size blocks allocation, is the use of pools for memory management that allows dynamic memory allocation. Dynamic memory...

Garbage Collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated by the program but is...

automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced; such memory is...

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...

Memory segmentation is an operating system memory management technique of dividing a computer's primary memory into segments or sections. In a computer...

C dynamic memory allocation refers to performing manual memory management for dynamic memory allocation in the C programming language via a group of functions...

Descriptors are integral to the automatic memory management system and virtual memory. Descriptors contain metadata about memory blocks including address, length...

The International Symposium on Memory Management (ISMM) is an ACM SIGPLAN symposium on memory management. In French, it is known as Institut des Sciences...

application virtual machine that provides services such as security, memory management, and exception handling. As such, computer code written using .NET...