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A reference in Java can essentially be thought of as a pointer into a virtual address space. The JVM can move around the location of an object in the system's a
by ziml77 4y ago
A reference in Java can essentially be thought of as a pointer into a virtual address space. The JVM can move around the location of an object in the system's actual memory, but as far as anything holding reference is concerned nothing has changed.
- recursive 4y agoAnd a reference to an object that's in an array won't be invalidated if that object is moving around the array or even removed entirely. It's still a C concern.