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Memory Leaks

Memory Leak is a type of resource management failure in computer systems wherein allocated memory is not properly deallocated after use, leading to gradual consumption of available memory and potential degradation of system performance over time.

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7.9K

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433

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155

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2017–2026

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Publications

175

DeepWukong

Xiao Cheng, Haoyu Wang, Jiayi Hua et al. · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 2021 · 299 citations

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Static detection of dynamic memory errors

David Evans · 1996 · 238 citations · Full text

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Reconsidering custom memory allocation

Emery D. Berger, Benjamin G. Zorn, Kathryn S. McKinley · 2002 · 185 citations

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SafeMem: Exploiting ECC-Memory for Detecting Memory Leaks and Memory Corruption During Production Runs

Feng Qin, Shan Lu, Yuanyuan Zhou · 2005 · 180 citations

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Practical memory leak detection using guarded value-flow analysis

Sigmund Cherem, Lonnie Princehouse, Radu Rugina · 2007 · 172 citations

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Authors

433

  1. KS
    Kathryn S. McKinley

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    12 publications · 760 citations

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  2. AA
    Artur Andrzejak

    Heidelberg University, Germany

    7 publications · 208 citations

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  3. ED
    Emery D. Berger

    University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States

    7 publications · 369 citations

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  4. GX
    Guoqing Xu

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    7 publications · 365 citations

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  5. MD
    Michael D. Bond

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    6 publications · 377 citations

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Institutions

155

  1. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    12 h-index

    18 publications

    1.2K citations

  2. The Ohio State University

    Columbus, United States

    8 h-index

    22 publications

    1.1K citations

  3. Google (United States)

    Mountain View, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    576 citations

  4. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    459 citations

  5. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    7 h-index

    13 publications

    1.3K citations

  6. Microsoft (United States)

    Redmond, United States

    7 h-index

    7 publications

    356 citations

  7. Heidelberg University

    Heidelberg, Germany

    6 h-index

    17 publications

    416 citations

  8. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    6 h-index

    13 publications

    1.5K citations

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  1. ACM SIGPLAN Notices

    13 publications · 642 citations

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  2. Software Practice and Experience

    4 publications · 79 citations

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  3. Journal of Systems and Software

    JSS · 2 publications · 57 citations

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  4. IEEE Access

    2 publications · 31 citations

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  5. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

    TOSEM · 2 publications · 329 citations

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