What Is First Fit Allocation?

June 20, 2023

First-fit allocation is a memory allocation algorithm that goes through a list of free blocks of memory and assigns the task to the first block large enough to accommodate the request. This algorithm's main selling points are simplicity and low computational overhead, but first-fit allocation often suffers from fragmentation-related problems.

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