Dynamic memory allocation has been a fundamental part of most computer systems since
roughly 1960, and memory allocation is widely considered to be either a solved problem or …

Despite recent increase in research on improvement of non-functional properties of
software, such as energy usage or program size, there is a lack of standard benchmarks for …

Is your memory hierarchy stop** your microprocessor from performing at the high level it
should be? Memory Systems: Cache, DRAM, Disk shows you how to resolve this problem …

Parallel, multithreaded C and C++ programs such as web servers, database managers,
news servers, and scientific applications are becoming increasingly prevalent. For these …

Applications written in unsafe languages like C and C++ are vulnerable to memory errors
such as buffer overflows, dangling pointers, and reads of uninitialized data. Such errors can …

This paper presents a comprehensive design overview of the SunOS 5.4 kernel memory
allocator. This allocator is based on a set of object-caching primitives that reduce the cost of …

As the gap between memory and processor speeds continues to widen, cache eficiency is
an increasingly important component of processor performance. Compiler techniques have …

We describe the design and implementation of Tornado, a new operating system designed
from the ground up specifically for today's shared memory multiprocessors. The need for …

Modern memory allocators have to balance many simultaneous demands, including
performance, security, the presence of concurrency, and application-specific demands …

We investigate the effect that caches have on the performance of sorting algorithms both
experimentally and analytically. To address the performance problems that high cache miss …