JVM Deep Dive: Understanding Stack and Heap Memory
As soon as I started working with Java I found some curious things. I’ve never evolved with a language that requires thorough care with memory as well as a language where it is needed to configure virtual machine resources and everything else. That is not criticism, maybe I’ve never been so deeply into a programming language to need to understand exactly how their core persists data into memory. I worked with Ruby, PHP and Go (for a small period of time), as well I have fun with Python sometimes and, at least from what I know, they do not have any complex memory management system. ...