Overview
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Explore effective memory management in Java in this course, one of two installments in the lively Java Memory Management series.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Make beautiful stack overflow errors
- What you should know
- What is Java memory?
- The importance of understanding Java memory
- JVM and memory management
- Stack memory
- Heap memory
- Heap vs. stack
- Primitives
- Objects
- Final classes and immutable objects
- Strings in memory
- Primitives and objects in memory
- The problem of escaping references
- Collections and escaping references
- Avoiding escaping collection references
- Example custom objects: References on the loose
- Avoiding escaping references
- Garbage collection
- JVM tuning
- Spotting and avoiding memory leaks
- Next steps with Java memory management
