I want to know how Java allocates memory for arrays: Is it contiguous or non-contiguous?
Please give me a suitable example which proves it.
I want to know how Java allocates memory for arrays: Is it contiguous or
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I want to know how Java allocates memory for arrays: Is it contiguous or non-contiguous?
Please give me a suitable example which proves it.
The Java specs do not require either choice, and in fact do not offer any way of observing either choice.
If I write a JVM in Javascript, for example, arrays would probably be non-contiguous.
That said, I would strongly assume that most actual JVMs do use contiguous memory.