I’ve been quite the busy theologian today — morning mass at St. Luke’s then working intensely on my “Seeing Hermeneutics” paper, then back to church for a funeral, then home again and a few more minutes work toward the paper, then out to parish friends’ house for dinner and general conversation and (inevitably) fretting about the parish. The “Seeing Hermeneutics” work is a blast.
I’m scheduled to preach next Sunday, but not Steve Himmer nor anyone else will choose the topic for me, thank you very much, so don’t get ahead of yourselves. . . .
Posted by AKMA at November 9, 2003 11:37 PM | TrackBackWhen compared to the Stack, the Heap is a simple thing to understand. All the memory that's left over is "in the Heap" (excepting some special cases and some reserve). There is little structure, but in return for this freedom of movement you must create and destroy any boundaries you need. And it is always possible that the heap might simply not have enough space for you.
Posted by: Walter at January 13, 2004 03:32 AMNote the new asterisks whenever we reference favoriteNumber, except for that new line right before the return.
Posted by: Howell at January 13, 2004 03:33 AMThis is another function provided for dealing with the heap. After you've created some space in the Heap, it's yours until you let go of it. When your program is done using it, you have to explicitly tell the computer that you don't need it anymore or the computer will save it for your future use (or until your program quits, when it knows you won't be needing the memory anymore). The call to simply tells the computer that you had this space, but you're done and the memory can be freed for use by something else later on.
Posted by: Tabitha at January 13, 2004 03:33 AM