Safer and more efficient computer memory management With the backing of a five-year, $443,000 National Science Foundation grant, Sam Guyer's goal is to make computer programs better manage memory.

Rust’s ownership and borrowing mechanisms guarantee memory safety at run time. Here’s how to use them in your programs.

Essentially, memory safety protects computers from errors in memory management or the process of allocating and freeing portions of computer memory, says Mark Stockley, cybersecurity evangelist at ...

When physical memory is scarce, paging causes garbage collection to run an order of magnitude slower than explicit memory management.

You can check the memory on a Mac computer in its Activity Monitor by reading a memory pressure graph. Here's how to do it.