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Tactic: Reduce memory leaks

Tactic sort: Awesome Tactic
Type: Software Practice
Category: green-software-practice
Tags: energy-footprint 

Title

Reduce memory leaks

Description

With memory leaks the application can stall or crash. This unpredictable behavior can alter the energy consumption and, more generally, they must always be avoided.

Participant

Software application developers

Related software artifact

C application in which we induce a memory leak (like malloc() )

Context

Green Lab

Software feature

< unknown >

Tactic intent

Reduce memory leaks

Target quality attribute

Energy-efficiency

Other related quality attributes

< unknown >

Measured impact

< unknown >

Source

Procaccianti, G., Fernández, H., & Lago, P. (2019). Green Software in Practice: Empirical Validation and Assessment of Best Practices for Writing Energy-Efficient Software. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, October 2019.

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  • Contact person
  • Patricia Lago (VU Amsterdam)
  •  disc at vu.nl
  •  patricialago.nl

The Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics (AADT) is an initiative of the Digital Sustainability Center (DiSC). It received funding from the VU Amsterdam Sustainability Institute, and is maintained by the S2 Group of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Initial development of the Archive of Awesome and Dark Tactics by Robin van der Wiel