After participating in 53 rescue operations, saving a dozen lives and finding 41 bodies in disaster zones, Frida, the beloved yellow Labrador retriever from Mexico’s Navy unit, retires. The Mexican navy celebrated the contributions of their canine fellow honoring her in a ceremony on Monday. “Her bark always gave hope, and in moments of pain and uncertainty she brought relief,”. Lizzo Dec 27, 2019
Breakthrough singer-rapper Lizzo has been named Entertainer of the Year by The Associated Press. Voted by entertainment staffers of the news cooperative, Lizzo dominated the pop, R&B and rap charts in 2019 with songs like “Truth Hurts” and “Good As Hell.” Though she released her first album in 2013, Lizzo dropped her major-label debut, “Cuz I Love You,” this year…
After participating in 53 rescue operations, saving a dozen lives and finding 41 bodies in disaster zones, Frida, the beloved yellow Labrador retriever from Mexico’s Navy unit, retires. The Mexican navy celebrated the contributions of their canine fellow honoring her in a ceremony on Monday. “Her bark always gave hope, and in moments of pain and uncertainty she brought relief,”. Lizzo Dec 27, 2019
Breakthrough singer-rapper Lizzo has been named Entertainer of the Year by The Associated Press. Voted by entertainment staffers of the news cooperative, Lizzo dominated the pop, R&B and rap charts in 2019 with songs like “Truth Hurts” and “Good As Hell.” Though she released her first album in 2013, Lizzo dropped her major-label debut, “Cuz I Love You,” this year…
solution to fragmentation. Well okay, but what’s wrong with fragmentation? What is compaction solving?
The most obvious problem is that a fragmented heap will take up more overall memory than a compacted heap. If we look again at our extreme example from above, all of those
RVALUES could have fit into just one page, instead of five. Like most things, memory can be a limited resource, so obviously it’s beneficial to utilize it efficiently.
But it turns out there are other reasons to compact, too. Let’s discuss some of them!
CPU Cache Hits
The OS usually loads small chunks of memory into a cache which is quicker to access than the rest of memory. It will take less time to acess an