METHOD AREA Inside a Java virtual machine instance, information about loaded types is stored in a logical area of memory called the method area. When the JVM loads a type, it uses a class loader to locate the appropriate class file. The class loader reads in the class file in a...

  In high-level programming languages such as C and C++, we write a program in a human-readable format, and a program called a compiler translates it to a binary format called executable code that the computer can understand and execute. The executable code depends upon the computer...