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Jan 2024
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The Cost of Memory Fragmentation

Hussein Nasser
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<p>Fragmentation is a very interesting topic to me, especially when it comes to memory. While virtually memory does solve external fragmentation (you can still allocate logically contiguous memory in non-contiguous physical memory) it does however introduce performance delays as we jump all over the physical memory to read what appears to us for example as ... Show More
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