Dotnaught writes "A paper (PDF) to be presented later this month at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium in Atlanta describes a new approach to memory management that allows software applications to run up to 20% faster on multicore processors. Yan Solihin, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at NCSU and co-author of the paper, says that using the technique is just a matter of linking to a library in a program that makes heavy use of memory allocation. The technique could be especially valuable for programs that are difficult to parallelize, such as word processors and Web browsers." Informationweek has a few more details from an interview with Solihin.pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F04%2F05%2F2342205%2FMemory-Management-Technique-Speeds-Apps-By-20" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Memory+Management+Technique+Speeds+App s+By+20%25%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Faz5itx" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/04/05/2342205/Memory-Management-Technique-Speeds-Apps-By-20?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fRoug-ACl1DDsurZx0PRAMRBkw0/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fRoug-ACl1DDsurZx0PRAMRBkw0/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fRoug-ACl1DDsurZx0PRAMRBkw0/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/fRoug-ACl1DDsurZx0PRAMRBkw0/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/wavOoGFqTlk" height="1" width="1"/

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