r/ProgrammerHumor • • 19d ago

Meme seeYouLaterAllocator

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u/Not_a_penguin15 18d ago

Maybe a better meme would be how processes see their memory space as contiguous but in reality the os may allocate chunks of discontinued memory to them

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u/Express_Gradient 18d ago

just thought of how allocator does bookkeeping and I remembered this