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by chii 1474 days ago
> A linked list element won't move once allocated.

only pertains to languages like C. In a virtual machine language like java, this isn't a property that can exist (there's no such thing as an address - at least as far as the language is concerned).
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ziml77 1474 days 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.
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recursive 1474 days ago
And 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.
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