I recently presented arguments for and against using dynamic memory allocation in C and C++ programs. 1 I do agree that truly safety-critical systems should avoid using dynamic allocation because the ...

Dealing with dynamic memory traditionally has been one of the most awkward issues of C and C++ programming. It is not surprising that some supposedly easier languages, such as Java, have introduced ...

To grasp what makes Rust so useful, it’s worth taking a peek beneath the hood at how programming languages deal with computer memory. You could, very crudely, think of the dynamic memory in a ...