Month: December 2019

[From the last episode: We saw how engineers organize working memory in computing systems.] We’ve seen how heap memory can provide a flexible way of allocation chunks of memory on-the-go. The chunks aren’t planned ahead of time; it’s a real-time thing: when the program, for whatever reason, needs more memory, […]

[From the last episode: We summarized the last several weeks of computing posts.] We’ve talked about processors and we’ve talked about several kinds of memories. Today we’re going to focus in on the memory used when a program is running. We’re not talking about permanent storage here; we’re talking about […]