If you have developed C or C++ applications, then you are no doubt aware of memory leaks and their pitfalls. Although the .Net CLR abstracts memory management from the developer, memory leaks can ...

Microsoft Research's Project Snowflake integrates manual memory management and garbage collection to offer developers the 'best of both worlds' Microsoft Research has been experimenting with ...

Reserving memory for specific purposes. At startup, operating systems and applications reserve fixed amounts of memory (RAM) and may allocate more as needed. Although a virtual memory function ...