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FirstFit.java

package Others;

import java.util.ArrayList;

/**

* @author Dekas Dimitrios

*/

public class FirstFit {

private static final int NO_ALLOCATION = -255; // if a process has been allocated in position -255,

// it means that it has not been actually allocated.

/**

* Method to find the index of the memory block that is going to fit the given process based on the first fit algorithm.

*

* @param blocks: the array with the available memory blocks.

* @param process: the size of the process.

* @return the index of the block that fits, or -255 if no such block exists.

*/

private static int findFirstFit(int[] blockSizes, int processSize) {

for(int i=0 ; i < blockSizes.length ; i++) {

if(blockSizes[i] >= processSize) {

return i;

}

}

// If there is not a block that can fit the process, return -255 as the result

return NO_ALLOCATION;

}

/**

* Method to allocate memory to blocks according to the first fit

* algorithm. It should return an ArrayList of Integers, where the

* index is the process ID (zero-indexed) and the value is the block

* number (also zero-indexed).

*

* @param sizeOfBlocks: an int array that contains the sizes of the memory blocks available.

* @param sizeOfProcesses: an int array that contains the sizes of the processes we need memory blocks for.

* @return the ArrayList filled with Integers repressenting the memory allocation that took place.

*/

static ArrayList<Integer> firstFit(int[] sizeOfBlocks, int[] sizeOfProcesses) {

// The array list responsible for saving the memory allocations done by the first-fit algorithm

ArrayList<Integer> memAlloc = new ArrayList<>();

// Do this for every process

for(int processSize : sizeOfProcesses) {

int chosenBlockIdx = findFirstFit(sizeOfBlocks, processSize); // Find the index of the memory block going to be used

memAlloc.add(chosenBlockIdx); // Store the chosen block index in the memAlloc array list

if(chosenBlockIdx != NO_ALLOCATION) { // Only if a block was chosen to store the process in it,

sizeOfBlocks[chosenBlockIdx] -= processSize; // resize the block based on the process size

}

}

return memAlloc;

}

/**

* Method to print the memory allocated.

*

* @param memAllocation: an ArrayList of Integer representing the memory allocation done by the firstFit method.

*/

public static void printMemoryAllocation(ArrayList<Integer> memAllocation) {

System.out.println("Process No.\tBlock No.");

System.out.println("===========\t=========");

for (int i = 0; i < memAllocation.size(); i++) {

System.out.print(" " + i + "\t\t");

if (memAllocation.get(i) != NO_ALLOCATION)

System.out.print(memAllocation.get(i));

else

System.out.print("Not Allocated");

System.out.println();

}

}