Re: how java variables are stored?

On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 02:51:34 GMT, Roedy Green
<look-on@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote or quoted :

>3. local -- one slot per method.
>
>local variables exist only while a method is executing, then they are
>immediately thrown away. Static and instance variables are garbage
>collected at leisure.

to be more precise, locals are one slot per method per thread. If you
have two threads executing the same the method, there will be two
copies of its local variables.
.

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