US Patent 10482008 Aligned variable reclamation

In one example, reclaiming obsolete regions includes a memory organized in aligned memory blocks and storing valid variables in valid regions and obsolete variables in the obsolete regions. A memory includes a buffer region to cache the memory. A controller can search the buffer region for the obsolete regions and pair with respective valid regions and determine if start addresses of the obsolete regions are memory aligned and if not aligned, to write a small portion content of a first valid region to the start address of the aligned memory block, and to write any remaining respective valid region beginning at the start address of the aligned memory block and in multiples of the aligned memory block. Upon completion of a writing, moved respective valid regions begin at the starting address of the obsolete regions and new obsolete regions begin at end addresses of the moved respective valid regions.