Sep 17, 2008 · What are the stack and heap? Where are they located physically in a computer's memory? To what extent are they controlled by the OS or language run-time? What is their …

Feb 22, 2010 · A memory heap is a location in memory where memory may be allocated at random access. Unlike the stack where memory is allocated and released in a very defined …

I couldn't figure out the difference (other than ordinality of push/pop actions) between functions heapq.heappushpop () and heapq.heapreplace () when i tested out the following code. >>> from

Why are the runtime heap used for dynamic memory allocation in C-style languages and the data structure both called "the heap"? Is there some relation?

What exactly is heap memory? Whenever a call to malloc is made, memory is assigned from something called as heap. Where exactly is heap. I know that a program in main memory is …

Mar 18, 2012 · 943 Can someone help explain how can building a heap be O (n) complexity? Inserting an item into a heap is O (log n), and the insert is repeated n/2 times (the remainder …

Apr 14, 2009 · Besides the obvious answer of a Priority Queue, when would a heap be useful in my programming adventures?

How can I check heap size (and used memory) of a Java application on Linux through the command line? I have tried through jmap. But it gives information about internal memory …

Nov 2, 2015 · The heap is a bunch of memory that can be used dynamically. If you want 4kb for an object then the dynamic allocator will look through its list of free space in the heap, pick out …

Nov 7, 2011 · Type* pointers are stored on heap, because amount of the pointers can change dynamically. vect in this case is allocated on stack, because you defined it as a local stack …