With the backing of a five-year, $443,000 National Science Foundation grant, Sam Guyer's goal is to make computer programs better manage memory. An assistant professor of computer science at Tufts ...

In a modern, multicore chip, every core — or processor — has its own small memory cache, where it stores frequently used data. But the chip also has a larger, shared cache, which all the cores can ...

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 ...

Poor memory-management practices have been the cause of over 70% of the vulnerabilities found in today’s software. This can lead to a host of problems from programs that fail or degrade to providing ...

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 ...

Virtual memory is a valuable concept in computer architecture that allows you to run large, sophisticated programs on a computer even if it has a relatively small amount of RAM. A computer with ...