Understanding the ins and outs of dynamic memory management is especially worthwhile for C++ programmers. C++ offers many facilities–most notably classes with constructors and destructors–that ...

By Colin Walls edadesignline.com (January 11, 2010) In C and C++, it can be very convenient to allocate and de-allocate blocks of memory as and when needed. This is certainly standard practice in both ...

This automatic way to replace the default functions for dynamic memory allocation is by far the most popular way to use TBBmalloc. It’s easy and sufficient for most programs.

Reserving memory moment to moment, as needed, without having to reserve a fixed amount ahead of time. Modern operating systems perform dynamic memory allocation for their own use.

Some readers took exception to my statement that, “I know of no place where the C++ language performs dynamic allocation or recursion behind the scenes.” As I explained a few months ago, I think of ...