Memory garbage collection is only one of the applications of reference counting; it is also used for deallocation control of system objects, Windows COM objects, and file system blocks or files.

The first is that the runtime now manages the large object heap in a more optimized way by repeatedly checking a free list of available memory blocks and using them whenever possible.

I tried this a few more times and it appears that the memory disk does indeed prevent the system from completing its bootup process. I thought this behavior rather bizarre.

But according to new evidence from a team at Yale University, the explanation for early our memory blocks may be a bit more complicated.

Data refresh and cell-layout issues must be addressed to optimally implement this space-saving alternative to SRAM technology.

Again the next instruction, which requires a memory block at address 32’h100, triggers cache line eviction and memory block fetching. This program results in poor performance when a direct mapped ...

Blocks that have no incoming references from the regular application memory are transferred back to the allocator where they can be reused for subsequent allocations." ...

The chip’s digital architecture is also innovative in allowing each computing core to access distant memory blocks as easily as neighbouring memory blocks, write Subramanian Iyer and Vwani ...

Here is how the programmable logic and memory stack up on the two SKUs offered in the Agilex-M series: The AGM 032 part has 311 Mb of M20K memory and 33 Mb of MLAB memory against 3.25 million logical ...