C++ Memory Management Explained

The differences between the Stack and the Heap and why they are still important to understand

Fabrizio Di Guardo
Level Up Coding
Published in
9 min readMar 22, 2023

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Memory management in C++ is really powerful for optimizing performance, especially for large and distributed software.

Unlike some other languages like Java, C++ does not have an automatic garbage collector that automatically…

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