When you create a new object in Java,aClass a = new aClass();memory is dynamically allocated on the process's heap to store the object instance. A reference to this object is created on the stack ...

A stack is very fast compared to a heap, but there are two downsides of using the stack. First, stack memory is limited, meaning that placing large data structures on the stack more quickly ...

For the past 7 years I've been working almost exclusively with Java, with a bit of csh/bash scripting and a few simple single-line fixes to C code. My C++ experience is pre-1997. Temporarily ...

Stack and heap memory must be allocated statically by the programmer but calculating the space required is notoriously difficult for all but the smallest embedded systems.