A memory leak in a garbage-collected program occurs when the program inadvertently maintains references to objects that it no longer needs. Memory leaks cause systematic heap grow...
A programs memory system performance is one of the key determinants of its overall performance. Lack of understanding of a programs memory system behavior can lead to performance ...
George G. Robertson, Trishul M. Chilimbi, Bongshin...
Inefficient use of memory, including leaks and bloat, remain a significant challenge for C and C++ developers. Applications with these problems become slower over time as their wo...
Languages such as C and C++ use unsafe manual memory management, allowing simple bugs (i.e., accesses to an object after deallocation) to become the root cause of exploitable secu...
Santosh Nagarakatte, Milo M. K. Martin, Steve Zdan...
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities are caused by programming errors that allow an attacker to cause the program to write beyond the bounds of an allocated memory block to corrupt oth...
Martin C. Rinard, Cristian Cadar, Daniel Dumitran,...