memory allocation

collocation in English

meaningsofmemoryandallocation

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memory
noun
uk
/ˈmem.ər.i/us
/ˈmem.ər.i/
the ability to remember information, experiences, ...
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allocation
noun
uk
/ˌæl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌæl.əˈkeɪ.ʃən/
the process of giving someone their part of a total amount of something to use in a ...
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(Definition ofmemoryandallocationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Not only does this introduce extra indirections but, more seriously, it gives rise to a lot of extramemoryallocation.
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This is useful but has the inconvenience of requiring dynamicmemoryallocation.
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Marking some information as static may have some advantages in efficient implementation, since various compilation shortcuts andmemoryallocationtechniques could be performed.
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In particular, nomemoryallocationis required to hold such numbers.
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As we enumerated next, support or-parallelism plus tabling requires changes tomemoryallocation, table access, the completion algorithm.
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It spends over 40% of the total time inmemoryallocationand deallocation, creating and destroying as many as 3 million nodes.
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Isolating this level of abstraction could be useful for correctness proofs of lower levels, such as the correctness of amemoryallocationscheme.
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The model that we study in this paper is motivated by several different applications frommemoryallocationand disk scheduling.
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To define this precisely we must begin with some notation and basic operations for environments, stores, andmemoryallocation.
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At this stage the object may be disposed of, and a garbage collection mechanism removes the object from the computer's memory, thereby providingmemoryallocationfor new object creation.
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Memoryallocationcan also be an observable channel of information flow, if it is possible to detect that memory has been exhausted or to perform arithmetic operations on addresses.
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Petersen et al. (2003) used ordered linear types to guarantee correctness ofmemoryallocationand data layout.
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Thus, dynamicmemoryallocationis not built into the language processor.
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Its kernel's design guarantees bounded computation times by eliminating features such as dynamicmemoryallocation.
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Instead, all dynamicmemoryallocationand deallocation must take place through explicitly declared "access types".
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For these reasons, this approach is mainly used for languages that do not support dynamicmemoryallocation.
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Many programming language designs encapsulate the details ofmemoryallocationin the compiler and the run-time system.
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Symbian is used mostly on phones where this increase in the code size will further amplify thememoryallocationfailures.
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Specialmemoryallocationroutines may then perform additional tasks to determine unwanted read and write attempts outside the allocated memory.
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The register stack itself floated at the crest of the program'smemoryallocationand call stack.
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