Memory management is a way to control and organize memory. Memory divisions are called blocks, and they are used for running different processes. The basic goal of memory management algorithms is to dynamically designate segments of memory to programs on demand. The algorithms free up memory for reuse when the objects in the memory are never required again. Garbage collection, cache management, and space allocation algorithms are good examples of memory management techniques. In software engineering, garbage collection is used to free up memory that's been allocated to those objects that won't be used again, thus helping in memory management. The cache provides in-memory storage for data. You can sort the data in the cache into locale-specific groups. The data can be stored using key and value sets.
This chapter covers the garbage collection, cache...
