By Rodney R. Oldehoeft, Stephen J. Allan
Communications of the ACM,
May 1985,
Vol. 28 No. 5, Pages 506-511
10.1145/3532.3536
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Tested against extremes in the characteristics of arrival patterns to dynamic allocation software, the working-set approach outperforms the FIFO method except in the case of completely random request patterns—where the working-set method performs as well as the FIFO method.
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