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Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes

Date	2011-11-20 14:48 -0800
From	Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes
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On 11/20/2011 2:42 PM, Stefan Ram wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj<arne@vajhoej.dk>  writes:
>> C/C++ pointers has certainly caused a lot of problems over the
>> years.
>
>    C serves as a »portable, abstract machine language«, so the
>    C pointers are inherited machine addresses from machine
>    languages, where one can freely add machine addresses and
>    numbers. But, after all, C already adds some type safety and
>    abstraction. So, C still makes sense as the first layer on
>    top of the bare metal. And C cannot be blamed for someone
>    choosing C where it is not appropriate.

My main concern with C's pointers is that they were called "pointers",
not "addresses". They behave far more like assembly language addresses
than like something more abstract, whose only job is to point.

Patricia

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Size of an arraylist in bytes sara <sarasara82@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 13:01 -0800
  Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-20 13:05 -0800
    Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes sara <sarasara82@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 13:11 -0800
      Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-11-20 21:58 +0000
      Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes markspace <-@.> - 2011-11-20 14:08 -0800
      Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-20 14:50 -0800
      Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-20 18:06 -0500
      Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 20:28 -0800
  Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-20 16:30 -0500
    Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes sara <sarasara82@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 13:35 -0800
      Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-20 17:19 -0500
    Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2011-11-20 16:58 -0500
      Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-20 14:04 -0800
        Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-20 17:18 -0500
          Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2011-11-20 14:48 -0800
            Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-25 22:12 -0500
      Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-20 20:44 -0800
        Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-25 22:16 -0500
          Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-11-25 20:15 -0800
  Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-11-20 22:25 -0800
    Re: Size of an arraylist in bytes Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-11-25 22:11 -0500

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