Apple has publicly touted a significant new feature in OS X 10.9 Mavericks designed to maximize RAM, storage and CPU use while also boosting power efficiency: Compressed Memory. The new Compressed ...

We have been excited about the possibilities of adding tiers of memory to systems, particularly persistent memories that are less expensive than DRAM but offer similar-enough performance and ...

Different types of memory perform and serve different purposes in the overall scheme of computer engineering. They are classified based on their purpose, speed, complexities and cost of manufacturing.

A new technical paper titled “Towards Memory Specialization: A Case for Long-Term and Short-Term RAM” was published by researchers at Stanford University and Microsoft, and an independent researcher. ...

Linux processes are made up of text, data, and BSS static segments; in addition, each process has its own stack (which is created with the fork system call). Heap space for Linux tasks are allocated ...