By L. A. Belady, C. J. Kuehner
Communications of the ACM,
May 1969,
Vol. 12 No. 5, Pages 282-288
10.1145/362946.363002
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A formalization of relationships between space-sharing, program behavior, and processor efficiency in computer systems is presented. Concepts of value and cost of space allocation per task are defined and then value and cost are combined to develop a single parameter termed value per unit cost.
The intent is to illustrate a possible analytic approach to the investigation of the problems of space-sharing and to demonstrate the method on sample problems.
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