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diff --git a/Variables lives in the stack.md b/Variables lives in the stack.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a929a67 --- /dev/null +++ b/Variables lives in the stack.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +[[Rust]] +[[Boxes live in the heap]] + + +--- + +The stack consists of frames. + +Frames are just mappings of names to values within a single scope, they are tightly coupled to a specific function + +Freeing is the act of discarding such a frame. + +If we assign a variable such as +```rust +let a = [0; 1_000_000]; +let b = a; +``` + +the value of a is **copied** to b (thus we get two huge arrays). This is **expensive**. Think about what happens when we call a function.
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