How to avoid heap fragmentation?

Question

I\'m currently working on a project for medical image processing, that needs a huge amount of memory. Is there anything I can do to avoid heap fragmentation and to speed up

Answer 1

If you are going to be performing operations on a large image matrix, you might want to consider a technique called "tiling". The idea is generally to load the image in memory so that the same contiguous block of bytes would not contain pixels in one line, but rather of a square in 2D space. The rationale behind this is that you would do more operations that are closer to each other in 2D rather than on one scan line.

This is not going to reduce your memory use, but may have a huge impact on page swapping and performance.