Wednesday, September 7, 2011

comp: stack and heap

http://www.maxi-pedia.com/what+is+heap+and+stack

Stack is a section of memory and its associated registers 





  • Both the stack and the heap are memory areas allocated from the underlying operating system (often virtual memory that are mapped to physical memory on demand).
  • In a multi-threaded environment each thread will have it's own completely independent stack but they will share the heap. Concurrent access has to be controlled on the heap and is not possible on the stack.

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