Memory Management

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Week 2

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There are only

• Numbers
  • chars
  • inttegers
  • boolean
  • floating point
  • instructions
    • When compiled are just numbers
• Basic math
  • In instructions
• Moving number around
  • In instructions

1. Allocate
2. Deallocate

	code and static vars	stack	heap
location	always same (static)	varies	varies
size	always same	always same	varies
lifetime	infinity	block scope	as long as you want

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Garbage Collector

• Better performance
• Hard to remember when to delete

If you can’t reach it via stack or pointer, it’s garbage