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Do you think Adobe can simply reuse the memory management code from the classic Mac OS version that carves out memory regions from a fixed-size heap in a single shared address space?

Embedded systems such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices and single-board computers possess limited memory and processing ...

Some operating systems create the disk cache in a separate allocation of system memory, but in OS X the cache is merged with the virtual memory system and is called the Unified Buffer Cache.

The once-dominant handset maker BlackBerry is busy squashing BadAlloc bugs in its QNX real-time operating system used in cars in medical devices.

Windows 11/10 reports how much physical memory is currently installed on your computer along with how much memory is available to the operating system and the hardware reserved memory.

However, sources close to Sony suggest that the PS4 approach is perhaps more flexible - the current allocation in terms of both CPU cores and memory could be reduced once the operating system is ...

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 ...

Report: OS overhead takes up 3.5GB of PS4’s 8GB of RAM Xbox One, Wii U have similar system overhead. Welcome to the set-top box world.