memory allocation

[gylph knor]

hi all,

could anyone please explain that if i make 1000s of instances of the same class then how will the memory be allocated to the instances of the class( i mean to diffent parts of the class i.e methods and attributes ) ...... please help !!!

[Ankit Garg]

Are you trying to say that will JVM be out of memory. If yes, then the JVM might go out of memory to allocate for the objects and throw an OutOfMemoryError...

[gylph knor]

no i mean to say that if my class takes 1 mb of memory in total then for suppose 10 objects will there be an allocation of 10*1mb=10mb of memory??

[Ankit Garg]

i mean to diffent parts of the class i.e methods and attributes

The size of an object of a class depends on the instance fields. Methods don't occupy memory in a class object (as far as I know). static fields also are shared among instances of a class. so they also don't occupy memory in individual objects of a class.

if my class takes 1 mb of memory in total

if an object of your class occupies 1mb, then 10 objects will occupy 10 mb memory.

[Himanshu Kansal]

Yes, that's true. 10mb, according to your example, would be the memory used for the objects of your class because each object would be using its own space over the heap. But then taht 1mb should be the memory taken by the object, apart of the loaded class.

[gylph knor]

thnaks !! got it ..

[Lucas Smith]

gylph knor wrote:no i mean to say that if my class takes 1 mb of memory in total then for suppose 10 objects will there be an allocation of 10*1mb=10mb of memory??

Hmmm... quite a spacious class
But on the other hand you can create one big array and it will be allocated.