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What is contiguous storage allocation?
Contiguous means to share an edge or boundary, touching, adjacent, neighbouring and so on. Thus contiguous storage allocation is any allocation that consumes two or more contiguous storage elements. In the case of contiguous memory allocation, this means two or more contiguous memory addresses are allocated. A one-dimensional array is an example of a contiguous memory allocation, where one array element (a data type) is immediately followed by the next.
Describe the major disadvantages for memory allocation schemes?
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What causes internal fragmentation?
External fragmentation is the phenomenon in which free storage becomes divided into many small pieces over time.[1] It is a weakness of certain storage allocation algorithms, occurring when an application allocates and deallocates ("frees") regions of storage of varying sizes, and the allocation algorithm responds by leaving the allocated and deallocated regions interspersed.
What are types of memory allocation?
There are two types of memory allocations. 1. Static memory allocation 2. Dynamic memory allocation
What are the two methods of representing a binary tree?
Two method of representing a binary tree is Static allocation, and Dynamic allocation
