A stack is very fast compared to a heap, but there are two downsides of using the stack. First, stack memory is limited, meaning that placing large data structures on the stack more quickly ...

The heap grows up from a lower memory address to a higher memory address. Stack—whenever a program makes a function call, the current function's state needs to be saved onto the stack. The stack grows ...

A process' memory usually is classified as either static, the size is predetermined at compile time, or dynamic, space is allocated as needed at runtime. The latter, in turn, is divided into heap ...