With the backing of a five-year, $443,000 National Science Foundation grant, Sam Guyer's goal is to make computer programs better manage memory. An assistant professor of computer science at Tufts ...

Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java, ...

Virtual memory is a valuable concept in computer architecture that allows you to run large, sophisticated programs on a computer even if it has a relatively small amount of RAM. A computer with ...

Memory management is a critical aspect of modern operating systems, ensuring efficient allocation and deallocation of system memory. Linux, as a robust and widely used operating system, employs ...

Rust’s ownership and borrowing mechanisms guarantee memory safety at run time. Here’s how to use them in your programs. The Rust programming language shares many concepts with other languages intended ...

Benjamin is a business consultant, coach, designer, musician, artist, and writer, living in the remote mountains of Vermont. He has 20+ years experience in tech, an educational background in the arts, ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently issued guidance on how to transition to memory-safe programming languages to reduce software vulnerabilities. As far back as 1996, when ...

Will was the Phones Editor at Android Police from August 2022 to May 2025, which usually meant his desk was covered in a dozen different smartphones at any given time. Prior to that, he was a news ...

Browsers like Chrome can use hardware acceleration to perform tasks faster. This also means that Chrome will request for more resources. In this scenario, it is best to disable hardware acceleration ...

If your Windows PC crashes all of a sudden with a Blue Screen error message MEMORY_MANAGEMENT accompanied by Stop Code 0x0000001A, then chances are that it’s a ...