Memory Management

Question 1

What keyword is responsible for allocating memory for new objects?

Answer 1

new

Question 2

Generally speaking, when does the garbage collector deallocate memory?

Answer 2

Whenever an object is no longer reachable

Question 3

When is a frame created?

Answer 3

Each time a method is called

Question 4

What is stored in the stack?

Answer 4

Primitive types and the memory address for reference types

Question 5

When is the heap created?

Answer 5

Whenever an application starts. There is only 1 heap per application

Question 6

What is stored in the heap?

Answer 6

The actual objects of an application (not their memory address like in stacks)