Eliminate memory fragmentation through holes in the heap

Authors:
Thomas Wang
Affiliations:
-
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1994

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Abstract

Memory allocators have memory fragmentation problem, which can result in large amount of wasted memory. The capability to create unmapped pages in the heap can eliminate most of the memory fragmentation, and reduce paging I/O activity. This has implications to both manual, and automatic memory management.