Reserving memory for specific purposes. At startup, operating systems and applications reserve fixed amounts of memory (RAM) and may allocate more as needed. Although a virtual memory function ...

The operating system uses protected memory -- a memory allocation system whereby a given block of memory can only be accessed by one application at a time -- to enable full multitasking, allowing ...

Long story short, i'm trying to optimize a situation where I need to iterate through an array of about 3000 items and check to see if they are in another array of up to 3000 items.Obviously, the ...