Fragmentation is often cited as a major challenge for the Linux platform and mobile software ecosystem. The word gets thrown around a lot and tends to be used as a catch-all phrase to describe a wide ...

Fragment-based drug discovery (FBDD) is playing an increasingly important part in delivering candidates to the clinic. Compared with screens of lead- or drug-sized molecules, fragments allow for a ...

Here's an example: Fragmentation is 99% in a system with 5 Mbytes of free memory, when the largest block available for allocation is 50 kbytes. The 99%-fragmentation example comes from a real-life ...