OK folks,<BR><BR>I've been scouring the Web looking for info on optimising the memory usage of Java and have come up with a few items of interest.<BR><BR>Can anyone shed any further light on a the ...

Q: Does Java have an operator like sizeof() in C? A: A superficial answer is that Java does not provide anything like C’s sizeof(). However, let’s consider why a Java programmer might occasionally ...

Erm. Well. There are a lot of possible answers to that. Some points:<BR><BR>1. Java is generally compiled to bytecode, which is then interpreted at run-time. (There are exceptions, and some ...

You might know that Java passes by value, but it helps to understand why. Here's what happens when you pass mutable and immutable object references in Java. Many programming languages allow passing ...

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