Memory allocation for primitive and reference variables [closed]

Answer 1

Memory allocation occurres in runtime and both reference types and primitives need allocation to be stored. To be more precise I can not understand what does it meant memory allocation in compile time (for java).

Answer 2

Runtime.

As Java is executed by a VM, it does not make sense allocating memory at compile time.

'Local variables' like function arguments or variables inside a function are only 'allocated' on the stack (primitive value or reference). Objects are always created on the heap.

But: everything concerning memory management (allocation, deallocation, garbage-collection) is JVM implementation dependent and happens only at runtime (except for primitive and String constants of course).