Segment Pool Allocation Strategy

Video games must be able to present things in ‘real time’, with no delays thus performance is critical. A modern processor can deal much quicker with information that is in one continuous section of memory as opposed to divided into smaller chunks. When information is split, it causes a delay in processing. The intern’s research will focus on optimizing a new system for memory management that will attempt to achieve greater performance through a system that organizes memory into collections of whole blocks in order to prevent the need for data to be split. The research will use algorithmic and statistical techniques to derive appropriate sizes and attributes of these blocks.

Faculty Supervisor:

Dr. Ramesh Krishnamurti

Student:

Micah Best

Partner:

Radical Entertainment

Discipline:

Computer science

Sector:

Digital media

University:

Simon Fraser University