Reserving memory moment to moment, as needed, without having to reserve a fixed amount ahead of time. Modern operating systems perform dynamic memory allocation for their own use. They may also ...

Many laptops today use DYNAMIC shared/allocated video memory, which means you have no control how much shared video memory capacity you want to allocate yourself, the system does it for you. Am I ...

Last summer, I wrote a column entitled “Poor reasons for rejecting C++” in which I sought to dispel some misconceptions about C++. 1 Among the many reader comments posted online were some valid ...

As someone who has spent over two decades in the embedded systems industry, I’ve seen the vast evolution of technology—from 8-bit microcontrollers to today’s sophisticated, multicore systems. Yet, one ...

Did you know it was possible to dynamically reallocate RAM to and from a KVM guest, while the guest is running? I didn't know that, until I accidentally actually did so today. I had a host with ...

Write program to run in parallel? Yes. Did you remember to use a Scalable Memory Allocator? No? Then read on … In my experience, making sure “memory allocation” for a program is ready for parallelism ...

As I've noted in the two previous installments in this series, Windows 10's Hyper-V platform is the ideal way to test-drive a new feature update before trusting it to production hardware. If you've ...

AMD's latest innovation in laptop gaming technology allows users to efficiently allocate up to 75 per cent of their system memory to video RAM, enhancing graphics performance without needing BIOS ...