Sep 17, 2008 · What are the stack and heap? Where are they located physically in a computer's memory? To what extent are they controlled by the OS or language run-time? What is their …

Feb 22, 2010 · A memory heap is a location in memory where memory may be allocated at random access. Unlike the stack where memory is allocated and released in a very defined …

Apr 14, 2009 · Besides the obvious answer of a Priority Queue, when would a heap be useful in my programming adventures?

Apr 6, 2017 · The heap is part of your process's address space. The heap can be grown or shrunk; you manipulate it by calling brk(2) or sbrk(2). This is in fact what malloc(3) does. …

Python includes the heapq module for min-heaps, but I need a max-heap. What should I use for a max-heap implementation in Python?

O que são esses tais de stack e heap que tanto se fala em gerenciamento de memória? Isso realmente são porções da memória como algumas pessoas falam ou é apenas um conceito …

Nov 2, 2015 · The heap is a bunch of memory that can be used dynamically. If you want 4kb for an object then the dynamic allocator will look through its list of free space in the heap, pick out …

Mar 18, 2012 · 937 Can someone help explain how can building a heap be O (n) complexity? Inserting an item into a heap is O (log n), and the insert is repeated n/2 times (the remainder …

Apr 15, 2012 · Python has heapq module which implements heap data structure and it supports some basic operations (push, pop). How to remove i-th element from the heap in O(log n)? Is …

The heap is a part in memory that is shared by all threads of a process. Space can be allocated on the heap using malloc and has to be freed with free when it is not used anymore to prevent …