Memory manager performance is complex. You might think that heap performance could be simply characterized by the time required for allocation and deallocation and the memory overhead, but, well, it's ...

Dealing with dynamic memory traditionally has been one of the most awkward issues of C and C++ programming. It is not surprising that some supposedly easier languages, such as Java, have introduced ...

One of the extremely simple--yet completely crazy--compatibility behaviors available in the Application Compatibility Toolkit is called EmulateHeap. If you enable this compatibility fix on a process, ...

When working with .Net, it is important to understand how the garbage collector works. The .Net CLR manages two different heaps, the small object heap (SOH) and the large object heap (LOH). This ...