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by faboo
5280 days ago
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Usually when people say "the heap" (especially in the context of garbage collection) they mean the memory where new (non-stack) data/objects are allocated from. Usually this is the bulk of memory an application uses. There are other meanings of the word "heap" in the realm of data structures, but I haven't personally seen "heap" the data structure talked about (or used) much in the wild. |
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Maybe not, but the concept of computing with addresses is reasonably common.
That's why programming interviews often have some variation on heap sort or radix sort.