Describes the process in which working memory is
reserved to be used by the program for use in
computation.
Freeing Memory
The process by which memory previously allocated is
made available to other programs (normally via the
mediation of the operating system).
Manual Memory Management
Term used to describe how a programmer needs to write
memory allocation and deallocation routines alongside
the business logic of her code.
malloc()
Part of the C standard, allocates an amount of
memory. Blocks of memory allocated in this way needs
to be free()'d later
free()
Frees the memory associated with a given pointer.
Arena Allocator
An memory allocator and allocation scheme where memory
is allocated from a central, possibly growing pool of
available memory. Allocations made with this technique
do not need to be individually free()'d as all of the
items allocated by a given arena allocator instance
will be freed when the allocator itself is freed