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How does JVM allocate memory to entities while executing any program??
what is the memory architecture in JVM?

Like for example , in the below given statement:

Animal a = new Animal(); // Animal is a class

where is the reference "a" stored and the object created using heap??
similarly where the static variables , local variables and the class and method definitions are stored??

In respect of above what are new and old generations, what is Eden space???
 
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All local variables, including method parameters, go on the stack. Everything else--class definitions, object instances, static and non-static member variables, constant pools--is in the heap. To answer "What is Eden space?" Google is your friend.
 
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Jeff Verdegan wrote:All local variables, including method parameters, go on the stack. Everything else--class definitions, object instances, static and non-static member variables, constant pools--is in the heap. To answer "What is Eden space?" Google is your friend.




what if "Everything else--class definitions, object instances, static and non-static member variables, constant pools" is also local to some method??
in this case i think the object will go in heap but what about other entities???
 
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vaibhav vishal wrote:

Jeff Verdegan wrote:All local variables, including method parameters, go on the stack. Everything else--class definitions, object instances, static and non-static member variables, constant pools--is in the heap. To answer "What is Eden space?" Google is your friend.




what if "Everything else--class definitions, object instances, static and non-static member variables, constant pools" is also local to some method??



Like I said in my first response: Everything except local variables is on the heap.
 
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Objects created inside methods, to which a local variable in the method refers, are also normally on the heap (while the variable itself is on the stack).

There is, however, an optimization called escape analysis. With this optimization, the JVM might allocate the memory for the object itself on the stack instead of on the heap. This optimization can be done for objects that do not escape the method, that is, objects that are only used inside the method, where no reference to the object is passed outside the method. The advantage to putting an object on the heap instead of the stack is that deallocating the memory for the object is essentially free: it's automatically discarded at the moment the method returns, when the stack pointer is restored - the garbage collector doesn't have to deal with it at all. The disadvantage is that it costs stack space, so your might get a StackOverflowError quicker (probably the JVM also checks the size of objects and doesn't try to put it on the stack if it's too large). The name "escape analysis" for this optimization refers to what the JVM needs to do: it needs to analyze if an object escapes from the method to determine if this optimization can be performed.

Escape analysis was introduced in one of the Oracle Java 6 updates (I think update 14).

Note that this is an advanced subject about the internal workings of the JVM - normally you don't need to be aware of escape analysis when you're programming in Java.
 
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Jesper de Jong wrote:The advantage to putting an object on the heap instead of the stack is that deallocating the memory for the object is essentially free: it's automatically discarded at the moment the method returns,



Or, rather, the advantage to putting in on the stack instead of the heap.

Escape analysis was introduced in one of the Oracle Java 6 updates (I think update 14).



Really??? I thought it was considered for Java 7 but shelved.
 
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vaibhav vishal wrote:In respect of above what are new and old generations, what is Eden space?


Do you have any particular reason for needing to know this information? As Jesper said, this is advanced stuff, and unless you're planning on writing a "new improved" Java garbage collector, the chances are you'll never need it. I've managed to get through 10 years without needing to know it in detail, and it certainly won't make you a better Java programmer...indeed, it may well distract you.

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Jeff Verdegan wrote:

Escape analysis was introduced in one of the Oracle Java 6 updates (I think update 14).



Really??? I thought it was considered for Java 7 but shelved.


It was optional in 14, disabled in 18 and reintroduced in 21.
 
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Winston Gutkowski wrote:

vaibhav vishal wrote:In respect of above what are new and old generations, what is Eden space?


Do you have any particular reason for needing to know this information? As Jesper said, this is advanced stuff, and unless you're planning on writing a "new improved" Java garbage collector, the chances are you'll never need it. I've managed to get through 10 years without needing to know it in detail, and it certainly won't make you a better Java programmer...indeed, it may well distract you.

Winston




actually i read these terms somewhere and they were very new to me...so just out of curiosity...
 
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Here is an interesting article which explains escape analysis in more detail: Java theory and practice: Urban performance legends, revisited (it's from 2005, so a bit old, but still relevant).

The Wikipedia article Java performance lists some of the optimization techniques that are used in the JVM.
 
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