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Tag: garbage collector

  • Memory Allocation – Heap and Stack

    A question I recently saw online was about how memory is allocated and used within the Java programming language. There was a little confusion about what the heap and stack are. Both the stack and heap are common to many languages such as pascal, C, and many more. Stack space…

  • Java Data Structure Performance

    Recently I was browsing Stack Overflow looking at questions asked about Java. One theme that kept on recurring is that of the performance of various data structures within the Java API, in particular the Vector and ArrayList classes were frequently compared. So I decided that i would have a go…

  • The Java Programming language

    The first language I learned at university was Java. Java is a high level object-oriented language, it is used in web pages in the form of applets. Some features of Java were very unique at the time it was created. The compiler does not generate native code, but rather generates…

  • Profiling an Android Application

    As you may or may not know, I have been writing an app for the Android platform using OpenGL. Anyone writing for OpenGL on the Android platform should know that it is important to make sure your code is memory efficient, and most importantly fast. In order to achieve this…