Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. I don’t know anyone who likes investigating a Java heap dump. They can be massive — literally ...

In “Heap data management in limited local memory multi-core processors,” Ke Bai and Aviral Shrivastava in the Compiler Microarchitecture Lab at Arizona State University describe a scheme they ...

Memory manager performance is complex. You might think that heap performance could be simply characterized by the time required for allocation and deallocation and the memory overhead, but, well, it's ...

Google's Chrome team is looking at heap scanning to reduce memory-related security flaws in Chrome's C++ codebase, but the technique creates a toll on memory – except when newer Arm hardware is used.

Google and Microsoft are working to bring a new memory-saving feature from Windows 10 to Chrome. That’s according to reports stemming from a priority-3 bug report and Chromium code commits. The ...