Memory management

  • Authors:
  • Malcolm P. Atkinson;Tony Printezis

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Memory management is concerned with the organization of the storage in which data is placed in a computer and with the identification and enforcement of the rules for interpreting and assigning meaning to the bits in the storage. Thus, it is closely related to database management. While there is no agreed division, the principal differences are that database management is concerned with data of longer persistence (that is, the data exists for more than the execution time of one program), shared data, and data design in the context of planning large-scale systems, whereas memory management is primarily concerned with data used within a program for periods up to the duration of the program's execution.