The following excerpt is from chapter 3, User-Level Memory Management, of Arnold Robbins’ book Linux Programming by Example: The Fundamentals, Prentice Hall PTR; (April 12, 2004), used with permission ...
Persistent memory (PM) used to be the norm when magnetic core memory was ubiquitous, but volatile DRAM now dominates main memory. While non-volatile memory (NVM) is used for booting and application ...
No matter which flash-memory-programming method you use, optimization of the programming algorithm is a key consideration. It has the potential to reduce flash-programming time and, therefore, ...
The dawn of GPU computing came about in large part due to the immense gap in compute performance between traditional CPUs and programmable GPUs. Whereas CPUs excel with serial workloads, modern GPUs ...