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Dynamic loading vs. dynamic linking?
What is the difference between dynamic loading and dynamic linking?
Both systems seem to allow shared libraries, but I am struggling to differentiate between them.
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How Does Dynamic Heap Storage Have Something to Do with Heap?
There are three typical ways to allocate memory for programs: static, stack and dynamic heap. However, when I look at the implementation of dynamic heap memory allocation from wikipedia , what I found ...
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Direct vs. Random Access
Would someone please clarify for me the difference between direct and random access?
Specifically, why does this Wikipedia article on Direct Access Storage Devices distinguish between the two:
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How does worst-fit memory allocation react when encountering contiguous empty memory blocks?
So I have a problem understanding how the worst-fit protocol for memory allocation reacts to contiguous blocks of empty memory. None of the examples I have found address this possibility.
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Swap space management during pure demand paging
The following is a doubt that I came across while doing a OS home assignment - however, it seems more concept-based than a straightforward coding question, so IMHO I don't think the homework tag is ...
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Clever memory management with constant time operations?
Let's consider a memory segment (whose size can grow or shrink, like a file, when needed) on which you can perform two basic memory allocation operations involving fixed size blocks:
allocation of ...
