memory management

Computer resource management of memory, involving allocation and deallocation

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Also known as memory allocation · definition

Subclass of: resource management

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Memory management is a form of resource management applied to computer memory. The essential requirement of memory management is to provide ways to dynamically allocate portions of memory to programs at their request, and free it for reuse when no longer needed. This is critical to any advanced computer system where more than a single process might be underway (multitasking) at any time.

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ACM Classification Code (2012): 10010950

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