Introduction Shared memory is an Inter-Process Communication (IPC) mechanism that…

Introduction CPU caches bridge the massive speed gap between processor…

Definition Memory barriers (also called memory fences) are synchronization primitives…

Introduction Custom memory allocators replace or augment the standard heap…

Definition A memory pool (or fixed-block allocator) is a custom…

Introduction Packed structures in C are data layouts where the…

Introduction Structure memory alignment in C governs how the compiler…

Introduction Memory alignment in C governs how data types are…

Introduction The realloc function is the standard library mechanism for…

Introduction The free function is the standard deallocation routine in…