Tag
heap
- Jul 29, 2026 In-Process Caches: Retained Heap and the Cost of a Hit What a per-process cache actually retains beyond its values, how object headers and hash-table slots multiply the footprint, and why the garbage collector makes an unbounded local cache a latency risk. backend systems
- Mar 11, 2025 Allocation Rate, Heap Growth, and Garbage Collection Pauses on a Frame Budget Why per-frame allocation, not heap size, determines pause frequency, how a generational collector turns short-lived objects into a recurring cost, and what makes a collection visible in a frame. mobile computing
- Jan 30, 2024 Allocator Mismatch and Cross-Runtime Deallocation Why freeing memory across a language boundary corrupts the heap, how separate C runtimes end up with separate heaps, and which API shapes make the allocator identity explicit. language runtimes