When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Memory Reference Code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_Reference_Code

    The MRC is part of reference BIOS code, which relates to memory initialization in the BIOS. It includes information about memory settings, frequency, timing, driving and detailed operations of the memory controller. The MRC is written in a C-language code, which can be edited and compiled by board makers. It provides a space to develop advanced ...

  3. Locality of reference - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locality_of_reference

    Data locality is a typical memory reference feature of regular programs (though many irregular memory access patterns exist). It makes the hierarchical memory layout profitable. In computers, memory is divided into a hierarchy in order to speed up data accesses. The lower levels of the memory hierarchy tend to be slower, but larger.

  4. Translation lookaside buffer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_lookaside_buffer

    This method uses two memory accesses (one for the page-table entry, one for the byte) to access a byte. First, the page table is looked up for the frame number. Second, the frame number with the page offset gives the actual address. Thus, any straightforward virtual memory scheme would have the effect of doubling the memory access time.

  5. List of CIL instructions - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CIL_instructions

    Store value of type int64 into memory at address. Base instruction 0x56 stind.r4: Store value of type float32 into memory at address. Base instruction 0x57 stind.r8: Store value of type float64 into memory at address. Base instruction 0x51 stind.ref: Store value of type object ref (type O) into memory at address. Base instruction 0xFE 0x0E

  6. Pointer (computer programming) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointer_(computer_programming)

    It is also said that a pointer points to a datum [in memory] when the pointer's value is the datum's memory address. More generally, a pointer is a kind of reference, and it is said that a pointer references a datum stored somewhere in memory; to obtain that datum is to dereference the pointer. The feature that separates pointers from other ...

  7. Dangling pointer - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangling_pointer

    If the memory has been reallocated to another process, then attempting to dereference the dangling pointer can cause segmentation faults (UNIX, Linux) or general protection faults (Windows). If the program has sufficient privileges to allow it to overwrite the bookkeeping data used by the kernel's memory allocator, the corruption can cause ...

  8. Addressing mode - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Addressing_mode

    Addressing modes are an aspect of the instruction set architecture in most central processing unit (CPU) designs. The various addressing modes that are defined in a given instruction set architecture define how the machine language instructions in that architecture identify the operand(s) of each instruction.

  9. Cache replacement policies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache_replacement_policies

    In computing, cache replacement policies (also known as cache replacement algorithms or cache algorithms) are optimizing instructions or algorithms which a computer program or hardware-maintained structure can utilize to manage a cache of information. Caching improves performance by keeping recent or often-used data items in memory locations ...