Memory Allocation Quotes

In C there are no data structures: there are pointers and pointer arithmetic. So you have a pointer into a data structure.

RAM: This gives guys a way of deciding whose computer has the biggest, studliest memory. That's important, because the more memory a computer has, the faster it can produce error messages.

The central problem of C and C++ is that they require programmers to do their own memory management

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.

I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out.

Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Ever since I learned about the concept of garbage collection in 6.001 at MIT in 1984 while using Scheme on HP Chipmunks, I've always thought of dreaming as the same as garbage collection for a computer.

The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small children.

Zero-length arrays are useful only in cases where you have a large structure, which contains a field of dynamic length, and you need to share that structure across program or even computer boundaries.