What and where are the stack and heap? - Stack Overflow What is their scope? The stack is attached to a thread, so when the thread exits the stack is reclaimed The heap is typically allocated at application startup by the runtime, and is reclaimed when the application (technically process) exits What determines the size of each of them? The size of the stack is set when a thread is created
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data structures - Stack and Queue, Why? - Stack Overflow The difference between a linked list implementation of a stack or queue and an array implementation has the same basic tradeoff as any array vs dynamic data structure A linked queue linked stack has flexible, high speed insertions deletions with a reasonable implementation, but requires more storage than an array