Isbn: 9798190646900 - memory management techniques: allocation strategies and performance optimization (the modern linux developer's handbook) (3 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. Master the Hidden Engine of Software PerformanceSoftware does not exist in a vacuum. It runs on physical hardware. While modern programming languages often abstract memory away, ignoring how data is allocated, accessed, and reclaimed leads to sluggish performance, unpredictable latency spikes, and catastrophic system crashes.This comprehensive guide bridges the gap between high-level programming concepts and the hardware-level realities of modern computing. Whether you are transitioning to systems programming, optimizing cloud infrastructure, or simply wanting to write faster code, this book provides the deep, practical intuition required to master computer memory.You will discover how to stop fighting the system allocator and start engineering for absolute speed. By looking beneath the surface of your code, you will learn to construct software that is inherently lean, scalable, and resilient by default.What you will discover inside: The Hardware Reality: Understand CPU caches, the memory hierarchy, and why spatial locality dictates execution speed.Dynamic Allocation Demystified: Go inside the black box of memory allocators to see how algorithms manage the heap, handle fragmentation, and fulfill requests.Virtual Memory and Paging: Learn how the operating system and hardware collaborate to provide process isolation, demand paging, and memory protection.Garbage Collection vs. Manual Control: Compare tracing algorithms, reference counting, ownership models, and deterministic destruction patterns.Concurrency and Synchronization: Prevent race conditions, false sharing, and cache contention in multithreaded environments.Production Level Optimization: Discover actionable strategies for object pooling, zero-copy architectures, and managing memory constraints in cloud containers.Stop guessing about performance bottlenecks. Equip yourself with the architectural principles and diagnostic techniques needed to build resilient, highly scalable, and blazingly fast software. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…