Hour 5. Understanding Memory Management
In this day and age of desktop and laptop computers with massive amounts of memory, tons of cores, and huge hard drives, it can be very easy for users and developers alike to take this capacity for granted.
Managing memory has always been a sticky point with developers. Whether we were manually locking every single byte of device memory on RAM-less device operating systems like PalmOS, or whether we’re using modern garbage collectors like those that can be found in Objective-C, C#, and Java—developers should always have a keen awareness of how memory is being managed ...
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