CST334: Journal Entry Week 3

This week I learned a lot more about memory virtualization. I already knew about it a bit but this module helped expand my understanding of the subject. Programming assignment 3 was also very educational getting to debug and write functions for a memory allocation library. I think it really helped me better understand how memory is managed. One thing that stood out to me when I first looked at this assignment was that the code for allocating memory looked very very familiar. It reminded me of the concept of linked lists that I learned about in a previous class about C++. There are clear differences but they are both very similar looking data structures.

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