When we talk about instruments, sometimes the guitar gets all the credit. Of course guitars are great, but an electric guitar on its ownâeven a hollow-bodyâis only so loud. For giving one of the world's favorite instruments its voice, guitar amplifiers deserve a little love too.
This book treats JavaScript as a serious object-oriented language, showing you how to build robust, maintainable, and powerful libraries and applications. Along the way, we cover many of the recent innovations such as AJAX, JSON, and interesting design and coding patterns.
Details are of course implementation specific. Briefly, it contains the Java objects associated with classes and interned strings. In Sun's client implementation with sharing on, classes.jsa is memory mapped to form the initial data, with about half read-only and half copy-on-write.ermGen is indeed an area in memory where Java used to keep its classes. So, many of us have came across OOM in PermGen, if there were, for example a lot of classes.