Stack vs Heap Memory in C++ 

Hope you guys enjoyed the video! A few notes: - to be clear, each program/process on our computer has its own stack/heap - each thread will create its own stack when it gets created, whereas the heap is shared amongst all threads

How is it that none of my teachers explained any of this during my whole bachelors degree.... this is brilliant! Thank you so much!

You are insanely efficient in explaining complex material, wow..., kudos.

I’m a Software Engineer, and my first SWE position was as a C++ developer which I learned predominantly from Cherno. I have an EE education, but I learned more from Cherno watching RU-vid than I did in my Intro to C++ and Data Structures and Algorithms in C++ sequence in college. The Cherno is legit folks, but if you really wanna learn, you gotta start at the beginning of the playlist and go straight through watching EVERY VIDEO and coding along. C++ can be a frustrating language to learn, but if you learn C++ first, it’s cake learning ALL OTHER C-like languages. You’re the man Cherno!

I like how you show why something is “expensive” or not very optimal instead of just saying it. You actually open the memory view or disassembly which is super useful! Thanks for the videos, they’re amazing!

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Happy birthday cherno!!!

I think this is my favorite video so far. I always wondered about the stack and heap differences. This is such a good explanation!

Finally, you are back, your video always great, thank you !!

This stuff is all great man. All of your C++ videos have been amazing so far.

hey cherno, your explanation of stack vs heap is amazing, no other youtube has evern been able to explain like this. ive come across heap and stack so many times but never got to really understand untill i watched your video today. thanky you so much!

This is by far the most complete lecture/tutorial whatever, I have seen in a very long time (possibly ever). You explained everything very clearly, demonstrated and tested them, yet did that all in 20 minutes. I am honestly surprised that this video doesn't have hundreds of thousands of views because you deserve that. Wish you the best!

This is A+ content. For someone trying to learn to code there is a lot here and I will be re-watching this a couple of times and playing with the memory view in Visual Studio. Thanks.

This video helped me a ton with interview questions, thank's so much!

The stuff that I learned in this one single video is actually insane. like, I knew about most of the stuff that he said, but since all of it was taught to me over various courses, and bits and pieces at a time, I never really could figure out how it all fit in together...This such a wonderful explanation!! All of it is starting to kind of make sense now....damn lol

This is the first video I've watched and I wanted to say - Really well done! Such a top notch explanation. I'm subscribing for sure. Thanks again for taking the time to make these videos

I learn so much over this channel thank you for the hard work!

Thank you so much for your serie Cherno, I always learn alot watching you Happy holidays to you and your friends/family :)

Its been 5 years since you uploaded and still it is one of the BEST video on the internet. Yours is a C++ Goldmine. could you please talk about your learning pedagogy of new things and especially C++. How did you gain so much clarity ?

For all C# developers: "new" does not mean, that it will be allocated on the Heap (for C# program) MyClass c = new MyClass(); // Allocated on the Heap MyStruct s = new MyStruct(); // Allocated on the Stack (in most cases) That doesn't mean that structs are ALWAYS allocated on the Stack! Just most of the times. It depends. Read about "stackalloc" keyword and about "Span" and "ReadOnlySpan". They are great!

Very clear and easily accessible explanation, even the explaining with asssembler was just really supporting understanding.

Amazing explanation! Thank you!!

This was a very interesting video. Please, make more videos about the way C++ works. I am looking forward to seeing your video about CPU cache optimisation. Thank you, Cherno, love your vids.

wow, this video is wonderful! It answers a lot of my questions. Thank you Cherno!

You are awesome Cherno! Thanks for your clear explanations!

*My takeaways:* 1. Both stack and heap memory are in RAM 0:47 2. How to allocate stack and heap memory 2:55 3. Stack memory allocation *stacks* data in the memory *in a row* and it is very fast 4:45 4. Heap memory allocation doesn't 7:49 5. Heap memory allocation needs to be freed manually by using "delete", whereas stack memory allocation is freed once the code is out of the current scope 8:47 6. How heap memory, "new" and "delete" work 10:27, allocating memory on the heap is slow

Great video! Heap memory is a really complex topic.... It took me a long time to figure out how it works when I was writing my own memory manager! Thanks a lot for this!😃

Happy Birthday & Thank you very much for your great content! :)

Thank you for this video. I have been confused about stacks and heaps. You helped me so much. Time to practice 🙌🏽🙌🏽

I loved the way you explained them through the code, thank you truly!

Thank you for this really great content, Cherno!

You're the best man excellent explanation, thank you

Next level videos. Thank you!

Excellent refresher for me. Subscribed.

MAGISTER DIXIT...! I am no programmer but I have had basic lessons in C almost 30 years ago and now I am strugling to master at least the basics of C#, which I find sometimes a bit confusing and with a lot of rules. Sometimes I get some comfort watching basic C ++ videos, especially those that are very well explained and that go right to the point like yours.

Many thanks for your effort and your very clear explanantions.

your videos have been very helpful to me. I hope things are going good for you Cherno :-)

Best content i found....Crazy, how it is simple and detailed 🔥.. Thank you

Amazing video! Thanks. I just subbed.

This video is really easy to understand!! I didn't know that allocating memory in heap is such a heavy work, and didn't know why it's heavy. You showed me the way to ensure the reason, looking into the assembly code. I'm gonna consider using Visual Studio...

Very nice and informative, I am kinda addicted to your videos gj.

You are a king. Excellent explanation, thank you.

This is the best explanation video about Stack vs Heap I ever seen, Thanks man.

Thanks! One thing worth mentioning: We use heap for allocation during runtime and stack for allocation during compile time. It was mentioned somewhat in the video but I think it should be more emphasized.

dude, you're awesome! I've learned it like a piece of cake!

THANK YOU SOOO MUCH MAN. VERY HELPFUL VIDEO, LOVED IT

I just nailed an interview question because of this and other videos. Thanks so much.

Awesome video😀 understood clearly... Kudos❤

Wow, this was incredibly incredibly insightful

Its was super useful video. Thanks and Gratitude!!

Thank you so much for this content. It's been very useful for me.

Very well explained, very good examples!

Just subscribed. Enjoyed the content. 😇

I enjoyed the video. Thank you!

Hi Cherno, Could you maybe take a video about exceptions, and why you don't like them, how to avoid them and best practices. Also a good topic to talk about is unit testing and do you write tests in parallel with your development. Thanks for everything your doing here.

Brilliant explanation thank you so much and please continue

Very Helpful, Thanks!

Your video is always great. Thank you.

Oh boy! I found a C++ video from you and now I'm stuck with video recommendations of your series. I appreciate that, but it's 22:30 and I wanna sleep... Seems like I wont

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Thanks for explaining this sooooo clearly and in an easy way!!!!! very useful!

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Clear, ,fluent and to the point explanation, thanks.

i have been programming c++ for almost 7 years now , what makes you unique among other youtube channels or tutorials is that you are really so deep in learning and teaching the concepts . keep going man you are awesom !

Awesome video !!!

A trendy looking programmer that makes good quality programming tutorials on RU-vid that doesn't use a mac? Respect.

Thanks a lot man your videos are so helpful , keep going 💙💙

Random fun fact - 99% of Rollercoaster Tycoon was written in assembly by a single developer. Getting an understanding of even a fraction of what goes on here, it's insane to think about how good Sawyer, the dev, was.

amazing, explained really well and in a clean way

thanks dude, good explanation

Great video and happy birthday.

A lot of useful knowledge, thanks.

Wow! Thanks for this video!

This was a really helpful video, thank you SO much. I appreciate that you show WHY the dynamic memory operations are more expensive and how it can be a performance boost to use the stack. So essentially, if you want something to have a longer lifetime, or if it's of a large size, then it's worth using the Heap, but if you're making a small simple variable that won't exist for a long time, it makes more sense to just use the stack, yeah?

This is sooo awesome!!!!

You are just awesome brother..!

very clear explain，thank you

Your a very clever guy. I find your videos extremely helpful

Very didactic!! Greetings from Brazil!

Great video!

Thank you man! :)

Thanks Cherno ! I was wondering if sometime you could dive into Windows Forms Applications using Visual C++ :-). I'm really enjoying your tutorials man !

Finally dude , its been some time since your last video on C++

Wow. This guy is next level and then some. 🔥

I just enjoy u talking, very easy to absorb

Pal, thanks a lot! It is like putting me in a new dimension with my coding! Now I have a vague idea why my projects work the way they do! Coming from Python/C# background this video is an eye opener! EDIT: Typo.

still such an amazing and practical video now it's 2021.

Great teacher!

words cant describe this video thanks for helping

Cherno, your tutorials are always great. I love that you pay attention to what you say. You always choose your words so that YOUR AUDIENCE understands what you say, and not so that you make sense to yourself. Thank you for the good work and congratulations. I am sure when you become worldwide famous these videos will get a lot more views. I have a question for you: How did you get to point that you know the material well enough to teach it? Who/What is **your** teacher? Other than sporadically making google searches and stumbling on documentation pages, do you regularly read books on C++? Do you constantly take classes? Do you continuously engage in competitions that keep your edge sharpe? How are you so good? I am not asking how are you productive. I just wander how do you keep this volume of knowledge in your head in such an order that becomes transferable to others. If I don't refresh something for a month (give or take) I surely forget it ... xD

Very nice. Thanks.

Thanks @cherno for making these videos. Few follow-up Qs: 1. How many CPU cycles does Heap allocation take for each of the examples you talked about in the video above? 2. Can you start a series on OS basics like different types of memory, how it all works at the OS level etc. Thanks! :)

Thank you so much!!!

Cherno, thanks for the video! Maybe can you use a visual representation the next time for such complex time-taking concepts?

thank you man

Awesome video! I thought it was going to be a lot more complicated than this. I'm glad it's not :)

this is totally amazing

I love how I get a good in depth explanation of stack & heap. Dare I say better explained than my proff. And at the end of the video I go. Wow! I have the same couch!

Thank you!

Yes!! Been waiting for this video for so long.