“Fragmented memory” describes all of a system’s unusable free memory. These resources remain unused because the memory allocator responsible for allocating them cannot make the memory available. This ...

Android “fragmentation” is back in the news this week, thanks to the Angry Birds game needing to release two different versions for Android. But I have a better one: Google itself needing to make two ...

External fragmentation occurs when unused gaps arise between blocks of allocated memory. This situation can happen, for example, when an application allocates three blocks in succession and then frees ...