The heap is part of your process's address space. The heap can be grown or shrunk; you manipulate it by calling brk(2) or sbrk(2). This is in fact what malloc(3) does. Allocating from the heap is more …

You need to search through every element in the heap in order to determine if an element is inside. One optimization is possible, though (we assume a max heap here). If you have reached a node with a …

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 scope? …

Feb 11, 2022 · Heap dump = memory contents for the JVM process output to a binary file. To take a thread dump on Windows, CTRL + BREAK if your JVM is the foreground process is the simplest …

A heap must have each node satisfying the heap property, the max-heap property is that for every node i other then the root, Heap [Parent (i)] >= Heap [i] So at each node, the higher nodes have higher …

A bit late to the party, but I noticed a significant increase memory usage my the application I am debugging when I turned on Page Heap. Unfortunately up to the point the (32bit) application runs out …

Python includes the heapq module for min-heaps, but I need a max-heap. What should I use for a max-heap implementation in Python?

I'm trying to understand why heapsort isn't stable. I've googled this, but haven't found a good, intuitive explanation. I understand the importance of stable sorting - it allows us to sort based on

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?

I am getting confused with memory allocation basics between Stack vs Heap. As per the standard definition (things which everybody says), all Value Types will get allocated onto a Stack and Reference