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Curiosity about the Servo project from Mozilla finally got the best of me and I looked around to see if I could contribute somehow. A particular exploratory task caught my eye that involved running the CSS rule matching on the GPU. I forked the original sample code and got to work.
I have been playing Game of War: Fire Age for some time now and a peculiar issue keeps recurring which prompted this post: the game often runs out of memory.
This allocator is a variant of the linear allocator we covered last time and again it serves to introduce a few important concepts to allocators. Today we cover the virtual memory aware linear memory allocator (code).
Surprisingly, it turns out that getting your hands on a legal Windows ISO after purchasing it is not as easy as it might seem. After purchasing a digital copy of Windows in the Microsoft store, you will be able to download a Windows application that downloads the ISO for you after entering your product key.
The first memory allocator we will cover is by far the simplest and serves as an introduction to the material. Today we cover the linear memory allocator (code).