[ric129]

>I'd never heard of the Robson bounds but they seem quite crucial to know about

I'd argue it's not really important in modern systems due to the use of virtual memory. With virtual memory, you can massive reduce fragmentation since you are no longer managing a single continuous region of memory.

Fragmentation still exists, but it only applies to "small" allocations (think smaller than a page) and in most scenarios it is a result of modern memory allocators preferring performance over reduced memory usage. Memory is cheap nowadays, and performance is king.

>Does anyone have some kind of list of the most important results in the area of memory management?

There is a survey [1] on the subject of memory allocation that mentions Robson's bounds and other results

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-60368-9_19

[mehrdadn]

Thanks!!