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 ...

Dynamic memory allocation tends to be non-deterministic; the time taken to allocate memory may not be predictable and the memory pool may become fragmented, resulting in unexpected allocation failures ...

Write program to run in parallel? Yes. Did you remember to use a Scalable Memory Allocator? No? Then read on … In my experience, making sure “memory allocation” for a program is ready for ...

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 ...