EBK COMPUTER SYSTEMS
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Author: O'HALLARON
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Chapter 9.9, Problem 9.7PP
Program Plan Intro
Dynamic allocator:
Dynamic allocator keeps the heap as a group of several size blocks; each block is an attached portion of virtual memory which is allocated or free.
- An allocated block has been clearly kept for use by the application.
- A free block is offered to be allocated.
Two types of allocators:
- 1. Explicit allocators
- 2. Implicit allocators
Explicit allocators:
Explicit allocators need the application to explicitly free any allocated blocks.
Implicit allocators:
Implicit allocators is the method of automatically releasing vacant allocated blocks. This is also known as garbage collection.
Implicit free list:
In this method, a block contains one word header, payload and additional padding. The header encrypts the block size, which contains header and padding; and check the block is allocated or free.
- If the arrangement is single-word, the block size is constantly a multiple of “4” and the low-order bits of the block size are always zero.
- If the arrangement is double word, the block size is constantly a multiple of “8” and the low-order bits of the block size are always zero.
- Thus, essential to store only the high-order “29 bits” of the block size, freeing the remaining “3 bits” to encrypt other information.
- Here, smallest significant bits is using to represent the block is allocated or free.
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