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Is my 'variable-storing area' basically a 'heap'?
Now, I looked at what a 'heap' is in Wikipedia and other sources online. I found mostly technical terms that I'm having trouble understanding. … So if my understanding is correct, is my 'variable-storing area' basically a 'heap'? Why or why not? If my understanding of what a heap is is wrong please explain it. …
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Are the Stack and Heap hardware, OS, or language-specific concepts?
In languages such as C or Java we have the concepts of the Stack and the Heap.
Are these abstractions the particular language runtime/compiler creates over the plain-old RAM? … In other words, do the Stack and Heap "physically" generally exist in any application regardless of the programming language or technology it was built with? …
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Is the JVM "heap" inside the JVM software, or inside the physical computer?
The JVM has a concept of a "heap". … Or do we refer to the heap of the physical computer? …