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In Java, heap allocation is a single instruction, most of the time.



Do you mean a single jvm instruction? Or?


No, he means a single CPU instruction. That's not quite fair, I don't think it actually is a single instruction, more like a few instructions in the best case and a very large number of instructions on the slow path.




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