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Comment by comex a day ago

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Not when we’re talking about a JVM, which has its own heap that does not use malloc.

tialaramex a day ago

The JVM is of course just software. In this case it's mostly software written in C++ and that software allocates "its own heap" using uh... malloc

https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/master/src/hotspot/share...

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