A Space Efficient Dynamic Allocation Algorithm for Queuing Messages

  • Authors:
  • Eric Beyer;Peter Buneman

  • Affiliations:
  • General Electric Company, Valley Forge Space Center, P.O. Box 8555, Philadelphia, PA;Department of Computer and Information Science, Moore School of Electrical Engineering D2, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

A simple dynamic allocation algorithm is described for queuing variable length messages in memory. The algorithm makes use of the ability of many operating system to increase and decrease available memory as required. Some results describing its efficiency are presented.