#MemoryManagement

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-18

🚀🔧 Ah yes, the classic "let's duct-tape onto Java" strategy—you know, because nothing says "I'm a serious developer" like turning a memory-safe language into a DIY memory management nightmare. 🤦‍♂️ Ever wonder where your weekends went? They're now spent deciphering error messages! 😂
medium.com/@greptime/how-to-su

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-05-06

🎉 Behold, the epic saga of memory management, where brave souls wield like a toddler with a lightsaber. In Part 5, we learn the ancient art of "fighting"—or perhaps flailing—through the mystical land of smart pointers. 🥋🤹‍♂️ Spoiler: it's like watching a cat herding competition but with code. 🐱‍💻
educatedguesswork.org/posts/me

kriware :verified:kriware@infosec.exchange
2025-04-19

Linux Internals: How /proc/self/mem writes to unwritable memory

Explores how /proc/self/mem allows writing to read-only memory, bypassing protections via kernel mechanisms.

offlinemark.com/an-obscure-qui

#LinuxKernel #MemoryManagement

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-04-13

Ah, the noble pursuit of using arena allocators for Odin programming—because who doesn't want to micromanage memory like it's 1995? 🕹️ Apparently, some folks think juggling lifetimes and dynamic arrays is the new extreme sport. 😅 But don't worry, you can always skip the thrill and just use a default allocator. Problem solved, right? 🙄
zylinski.se/posts/dynamic-arra

Linux 6.15 Memory Management improvements

The upcoming version of Linux will incorporate many memory management improvements that will make your PC better than before. This pull request, which is already migrated to the main Linux 6.15 Git, incorporates many memory management changes that will achieve that goal of making your PC manage memory better than before. As this pull request mentions a possible Linux 6.15 RC1 release by just a title, we expect that this release candidate will be released on April 6th.

A new command-line options, hugetlb_alloc_threads, has been added to the Linux kernel that allows you to choose how many threads are in use, with the default being a reasonable 25% to make your computer boot up faster. This is when allocating a large number of huge pages, which will see around 2.75x to 4.3x speedup on Skylake and Cascade Lake systems.

Alongside with this change, there is another interesting patch series that revolved around making the huge pages allocator more reliable than before. It reduces fragmentation to allow larger requests to be met more quickly, while making the operation cheaper.

In the pull request linked above, you can find a list of patch series that are merged to the Linux 6.15 source code.

#Computer #Computers #improvements #Linux #Linux615 #Memory #MemoryManagement #news #performance #Ram #Tech #Technology #update

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-27

🚀 Breaking news: Search engine crawlers are taking longer coffee breaks than your average office worker! 🐢 Apparently, shrinking memory means faster crawling... except when it doesn't, because the last 0.1% is on vacation for a week! 📅 Clearly, Pareto forgot to distribute common sense! 😂
marginalia.nu/log/a_117_crawl_

2025-03-27

Learn how to optimize memory usage in your PHP app with simple fixes!
Check out Vincent Wong’s article on reclaiming memory from PHP arrays👇
urls.fr/9JsCsG

#PHP #MemoryManagement #WebDev #CodeOptimization #TechTips

Reclaiming Memory from PHP Arrays By Vincent Wong
N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-19

🚀 Oh, joy! Yet another groundbreaking revelation: web fonts now need from the *big bad memory wolves*! 🐺💻 Meanwhile, the rest of us are left pondering: did someone just reinvent the wheel, or did the Chrome team just discover fire? 🔥🌐
developer.chrome.com/blog/memo

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-17

🚀 Wow, yet another article heroically tackling C's memory management with a "stupid" twist! 😅 Because, of course, reinventing smart pointers is exactly what C needs... and let's not forget cramming in some just for kicks. 🤦‍♂️
blog.kevinalbs.com/stupid_smar

2025-03-17

Do you want to increase the performance of your #Linux application? Heaptrack is a powerful tool designed to track and analyze memory usage. You can easily identify memory leaks and optimize #performance, making your software run smoother and faster: github.com/KDE/heaptrack #MemoryManagement #Optimization
github.com/KDE/heaptrack

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-09

🎩🧐 Behold, the riveting to 'Memory Management'—as if the first wasn't thrilling enough! Brace yourself as our intrepid author attempts to make ++ sound like it's not just C with a monocle. 🥱🔧 Spoiler: It's still about , and no one's impressed.
educatedguesswork.org/posts/me

Taras Kovalenkotkovalenko
2025-03-01

Неефективна робота з пам'яттю може спричинити суттєве падіння продуктивності ваших застосунків. Розуміння принципів роботи GC дозволяє писати швидший та більш оптимізований код.

taraskovalenko.github.io/posts

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