Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...

Scientists have been building supercomputers for simulating climate change for decades on special-purpose machines using specially crafted algorithms. Today powerful cloud computers are growing in ...

Rust’s ownership and borrowing mechanisms guarantee memory safety at run time. Here’s how to use them in your programs. The Rust programming language shares many concepts with other languages intended ...

Generative AI applications don’t need bigger memory, but smarter forgetting. When building LLM apps, start by shaping working memory. You delete a dependency. ChatGPT acknowledges it. Five responses ...

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 ...