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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=computer_programming">computer programming</a>, <b>chunking</b> has multiple meanings.</p>

<p><big>In memory management</big></p>
 <p>Typical modern <a href="page.php?w=software">software</a> systems allocate <a href="page.php?w=computer_memory">memory</a> dynamically from structures known as <a href="page.php?w=dynamic_memory_allocation">heap</a>s. Calls are made to heap-management routines to allocate and free memory. Heap management involves some computation time and can be a performance issue. <b>Chunking</b> refers to strategies</p><p>
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