Re: what is a stack

From: Sam (samhunt90_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: 16 Jul 2004 07:14:11 -0700

thufir.hawat@mail.com wrote in message news:<Pine.GSO.4.43.0407152149030.14514-100000@earth>...
>
>
> I think you're not really referring to stacks and queues in java per se,
> but the heap and queue's in memory or something. AFAIK this is totally
> opaque in java, so, in a sense, isn't "necesarry" to know. I think it's
> related to garbage collection, which, in general, you're not supposed to
> have to deal with. OTOH the more you know the better.
>
> HTH,
>
> Thufir Hawat

I usually associate the "stack" with a limited memory area
(registers?) used by the OS to keep track of things like where the
program is currently executing, method calls and local (primitive)
variables and such. Otoh, I consider the "heap" as general memory
where objects are stored to (and garbage collected from).

Sam90

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