Introducing ‘mesh,’ memory-saving plug-in to boost phone and computer performance

Science Daily  September 19, 2019
Applications like web browsers or smartphone apps often use a lot of memory. To address this ,researcher at the UMass. Amherst, have developed a system they call Mesh that can automatically reducee such memory demands. Programs written in C-like languages can suffer from serious memory fragmentation. Mesh effectively squeezes out these gaps by taking advantage of virtual memory of the hardware. Mesh finds chunks of memory that can be interleaved and reclaims the memory from one of the chunks by combining the two chunks into just one. According to the researchers the results to date have been extremely promising – using Mesh automatically reduces the memory demands of the Firefox web browser by 16% and for Redis Mesh reduces memory demands by almost 40%. Technical details were presented at the recent ACM SIGPLAN Programming Language Design and Implementation conference…read more.