...e memory back to the OS (because each of the large blocks it has allocated from the OS, for malloc etc. to sub-divide, has something left in it, even though most of each block is now unused). Tactics to prevent memory fragmentation in C++ work by allocating objects from different areas according to ...

...e-CPU, single-core machines, that concurrency was simulated with some help from the OS -- nowadays, since so many machines are multi-CPU and/or multi-core, threads will de facto be executing simultaneously, not just "conceptually"). ...

...of little use, since the Java heap limit is there in part to avoid one app from being able to stress the system to this point. Going lower-level, you can use the Debug API to get raw kernel-level information about memory usage: android.os.Debug.MemoryInfo Note starting with 2.0 there is also an AP...

...ibility, these methods should be implemented as an UIColor category. Also, from @Riley's idea, it may be a better idea to make the color proprtionally darker or lighter instead of adding or subtracting constant values. As @jrturton pointed out, it's not necessary to manipulate the RGB components; it...

...n you click it, you usually don't see what's inside, unless you explicitly select to show the content). Wikipedia calls framework a "buzzword". It defines a software framework as A software framework is a re-usable design for a software system (or subsystem). A software framework may incl...

...tly appreciated. I probably have some left over path settings on my system from working with Ruby last year. share | improve this answer | follow | ...

...hy it happened to release exactly 50.5mb, you're going to have to trace it from the bottom up. Why did malloc unmap 50.5mb worth of pages when you did those one or more free calls (for probably a bit more than 50.5mb)? You'd have to read your platform's malloc, and then walk the various tables and l...

I've never had to convert time to and from UTC. Recently had a request to have my app be timezone aware, and I've been running myself in circles. Lots of information on converting local time to UTC, which I found fairly elementary (maybe I'm doing that wrong as well), but I can not find any informat...

...on, though this does have the effect of appearing to prolong the page load from the user perspective. share | improve this answer | follow | ...

...reset --keep You can also do the same manually by opening the Git GUI and selecting each "Staged changes" and click on "Unstage the change". When everything is unstaged, you should now be able to compress your database, check your database and commit. I also tried the following commands but they d...