While I think it's excellent for any developer to have a firm grasp of memory use when programming and how all that works, from a beginner's perspective, the beauty of Java is that you don't really need to concern yourself with either.
Originally posted by Gregg Bolinger: While I think it's excellent for any developer to have a firm grasp of memory use when programming and how all that works, from a beginner's perspective, the beauty of Java is that you don't really need to concern yourself with either.
From a more advanced perspective, that might not look so beatiful though .