Questions tagged [memory-management]
Memory management is the act of managing computer memory by allocating portions of memory to programs as well as freeing memory so that it can be re-used.
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Arena Allocator in C
This is my first time doing any kind of serious coding in C. I watched a Youtube video on what an Arena Allocator should do and I tried my best to make an implementation for it.
As of now, we have the ...
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RAII Wrapper For CUDA Pointers
I was recently working on my CUDA wrappers library, and this particular class is one of the oldest pieces of code in the entire project. Since that time, I added tons of other features (for example <...
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Strongly-typed CUDA device memory
When I discovered that CUDA device memory was represented by plain old void* I was horrified by having to deal with C-style type safety and resource ownership (i.e. ...
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I implemented FFT in C
I wrote Cooley-Tukey's FFT algorithm in C. And I want to know how safe is this code? Is it just trash? How can I make it more memory safe?
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k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm in C
I've been learning C for a while, and I decided to make a simple kNN program. What can I do to improve the program?
Am I doing memory management right? Can the structure of the code be improved in ...
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MemoryGraveyardDriver.sys - a kernel mode device driver managing a kilobyte of RAM for random reading/writing: Take II
(See the previous and initial iteration.)
This time I have incorporated some improvement points made by G. Sliepen:
driver.cpp:
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MemoryGraveyardDriver.sys - a kernel mode device driver managing a kilobyte of RAM for random reading/writing
(See the second and next iteration.)
Intro
I have this GitHub repository. Basically, it does not do anything fancy: it has a byte buffer of 1Kb size, and it intercepts ...
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C++ wrapper for FreeRTOS blocking queue that can handle complex objects
The FreeRTOS queue is a convenient way for intertask communication on FreeRTOS. But it is written in pain C and therefore it feels a little uncomfortable for C++ programmers. But the main problem is, ...
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Implementing safe custom exception [closed]
I was trying to come up with some design to subclass built-in exceptions.
For simplest case I used something like this:
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SPSC templatized lock free queue implementation and benchmarking
I have tried implemented a fast lock free Single producer single consumer queue in C++ for practicing concurrency and low level design concepts. I also benchmarked the code on x86_64 2.3GHz Intel ...
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Arena/Region Allocator in C++ (rev 2)
2nd revision of original post: Arena/Region Allocator in C++
Context, changes
Trying to get a better grasp on low-level memory management, I implemented an arena allocator in C++. It's a rough ...
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Arena/Region allocator in C++
Update: 2nd revision on separate post: Arena/Region Allocator in C++ (rev 2)
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Trying to get a better grasp on low-level memory management, I implemented an arena allocator in C++.
It's a ...
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Custom implementation of `std::unique_ptr<T>`
I skimmed through the documentation on cppreference.com and put down the basic functionalities expected out of a unique_ptr<T> implementation. I coded up a ...
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I have a pytorch module that takes in some parameters and predicts the difference between one of it inputs and the target
One instance of the following module uses up to almost 75% of my vram. So, I was wondering how I could improve that without slowing down runtime too much. The code is below:
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Allocate managed objects in C# on the native heap
This is a pretty basic class to allocate objects from the native heap. The whole process goes as follows: allocate bytes from NativeMemory.Alloc, set the method table pointer from an existing object, ...
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