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February 14, 2021
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Heap Fragmentation in Long-Running Embedded Systems: Diagnosis and Mitigation
A product that runs for months will fragment its heap in ways that 24-hour QA testing never reveals. Static allocation, pool allocators, and when to give up on dynamic memory.
A product that runs for months will fragment its heap in ways that 24-hour QA testing never reveals. Static allocation, pool allocators, and when to give up on dynamic memory.
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