A Seminar on Memory Management http:www'cs'tau'ac'ilmsagivcoursesmm02'html

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A Seminar on Memory Managementhttp//www.cs.tau.a
c.il/msagiv/courses/mm02.html

• Mooly Sagiv
• Schriber 317
• msagiv_at_post
• Office Hours Wed. 10-12

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Outline

• General information
• How to give a presentation
• Volunteer for October 29
• Next week GC

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General Information

• Prerequisites
• Compilers
• Requirements
• Read a short introduction (October 22)
• Select a topic (October 22)
• Read short survey on GC techniques (October 29)
• Read a short article on presentations before
  preparing your presentation
• Participate in seminar talks (can miss one)
• Present a paper

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Dynamic Memory Management

• Essential for high level programming languages
• A major source for
• Bugs
• Performance bottlenecks

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Typical Memory Layout
Stack
Heap
AR3
AR2
AR1
AR0
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Memory Management Techniques

• Garbage collection
• Standard in C, Java, ML
• Can be used in C, C
• Escape Analysis
• Allocate memory at the stack
• Region Based Allocation

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How to give a presentation

• What to say and how to say it
• Getting through the audience
• Visual aids

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What to say and how to say it

• Communicate the Key Ideas
• Dont get bogged down in Details
• The best talk make you read the paper
• Structure your talk
• Use Top-Down approach
• Introduction
• Body
• Technicalities
• The Conclusion

Use Examples
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Introduction

• Define the problem
• Motivate the audience
• Introduce terminology
• Discuss earlier work
• Emphasize the contributions
• Provide a road map

Use Examples
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The body

• Abstract the major results
• Explain the significance of the results
• Explain the main techniques
• Use enlightening examples
• Demonstrations are welcome

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Technicalities

• Expert only part
• Show something really interesting beyond the
  paper/tool

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The Conclusion

• Hindsight is clearer than Foresight
• Give open problems/further work
• Indicate that your talk is over

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Know your audience

• Background

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Getting through the Audience

• Use Repetitions
• Remind, dont assume
• Dont over-run
• Maintain Eye Contact
• Control your voice
• Control your motion
• Take care of your appearance

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Visual Aids

• PowerPoint transparencies
• Dont overload transparencies
• Dont use too many transparencies
• Use Overlays Properly
• Use Color Effectively
• Use Pictures and Tables
• The blackboard can be used too

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Dont overload transparencies

• The input of the program can be arbitrary.
• Let x be a prime number, i.e., all the numbers
  zltx do not divide x. y be the next prime number,
  i.e., etc.

• Arbitrary input
• Prime number x
• The next prime y

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Use overlays (im)properly

• Item 1
• Item 1.1
• Item 1.2
• Item 2
• Item 2.1
• Item 2.1.1

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Use colors properly

• Item 1
• Item 2
• Item 3

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