WHY IS THE STACK SO FAST?

In this video we take a look at the Stack, which sometimes is called Hardware Stack, Call Stack, Program Stack....
Keep in mind that this is made for educational purposes, so many of the information is oversimplified for easy understanding.

[@CoreDumpped]

For people disagreeing on the stack grown upwards (address) in the animation. As someone else commented: "Growing downwards is a convention from when computers had small memories and the stack was placed at the end of the data segment... nowadays the stack can be anywhere, but the convention stuck on, at the end of the day it makes no difference".

[@geekzombie8795]

Did people not see your note at 9:03?

[@ddopson]

That's a silly thing to disagree with. Up, down, it's a subjective choice unless you define which way the address range is incrementing.

[@Luclecool123]

Also I think you confused internal and external fragmentation

[@DennisHolmberg-sl1hz]

It's just as bad in real life; uptown, downtown. Up because why? North? South? Towards the mountains, or ocean? Meh, some arguments are really not worth the trouble, you adapt and move on; unless it is family, then frankly it's war. ☺

[@leaks1965]

What you used to animate this video?

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there is severe lack of educational material on youtube that teach conceptual subject of software and programming, I'm glad I found your channel keep up the good work my friend !

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Nah you just need to know how to search properly and you will find gems

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Definitely. There’s an overwhelming abundance of good videos for surface level beginner material because that’s where you get the most viewers. Once you get deeper into a topic there quickly becomes only a select few creators that are willing to make more difficult videos for a much smaller audience that is at that level.

[@0LoneTech]

There's some excellent material, e.g. MIT OpenCourseWare. Of course quality is rarely recognized, let alone promoted.

[@thesquee1838]

There is actually a huge depth of information. Just look around and maybe try and figure out exactly what to look for

[@krellin]

there is lack of people who care about it, i think there is plenty of content, though quality is not as in this video...

[@adansmith5299]

Only 3 minutes in, but I've had dreams of a youtuber with such a beautiful and minimalistic style that doesn't just go over brief basics. Thank you! Edit: It's so deeply upsetting that the best and most interesting learning channels get such little attention

[@Scrawlerism]

its the basics delivered to you by an ai voice lol. its nice but its not that nice.

[@makadi86]

People who explain complex things in this simple way are considered a rare coin. You have gained a large number of subscribers with only three videos. Please continue, perhaps this channel will achieve great success.

[@wrathofainz]

Code salesman: **Slaps roof of stack** "This bad boy can fit so much data in it."

[@DS-rd8ud]

These are some of the fundamentals that should be covered on any software development educational setting, specially when they're presented in such a visual fashion. Thank you for making this.

[@Byynx]

Masterly done, the best video about the stack. A gem. Unfortunely not all people are made to teach.

[@techno_tuna]

Thank you dearly for going over everything you did. Please don't ever feel pressured to summarize or assume the viewer knows, if everybody assumes that everybody already knows (as much of the programming world seems to do) information becomes insular and difficult to access. You're doing an amazing public service.

[@CaptTerrific]

This was the PERFECT length and complexity for an introduction to this topic! Concise, yet doesnt presuppose a ton of knowledge, while also not delving into a bunch of side comments on details/scenarios that do nothing but stroke the creator's ego while confusing the audience :) JUST enough to know where the OS fits, types of memory, stack size constraints, etc., to understand the implications on performance and utilization, while still focusing solely on the stack itself. It leaves the viewer with tons of questions to learn more, but few to no questions about the content presented here. Bravo!

[@devilish_crow]

Good educational and informative video, as always, nice job!

[@pedroivog.s.6870]

I really appreciate how considerable you are for mobile viewers. Many programming youtubers just show their computer screen and the letters of the code become miniscule

[@mutt8553]

Incredible video! As a 4th year CS major, I haven’t seen such a detailed and intuitive description of the stack in any of my classes. Looking forward to the heap video!

[@magwoo3281]

It's just great! I watched other videos about the stack, understood how it works, but there were a lot of questions, and in this video you just visualized everything perfectly and explained it! I'm really looking forward to a video about a heap

[@CaioCodes]

Great video, thanks for sharing this knowledge.

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This channel is GOLD 🔥! Now I know what the Cache, Swap etc is. True gold! Please keep making these videos ❤

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This was such an amazing video. I really believe the way this video articulated each point and built up to the answer. The pace was also great. Please keep up these sort of educational low level videos!

[@himanshupradhan5796]

Best video I’ve seen in a while. Perfect blend between programming and hardware information.

[@ishaangupta4166]

Amazingly done. I finally understand what on earth the stack even means. Why its so fast is secondary. Thank you for this !

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I've been looking for some explanation like this for years, so I could understand some concepts which didn't live my mind for all that time. And this channel just appeared in my recommendations. Thanks for very informative video.

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Great vid! I have always wondered why I can't add to an array, this makes it perfectly clear to me

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Best low level content on this platform. No question

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I love your teaching style and sense of humo...

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Your upload schedule is amazing. Keep up the good work.

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i really like how elaborately you explain these concepts, as someone just getting into systems programming, your videos are really helpful to me

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This was such a great video. I learned this sort of stuff in university, but i always find it tough to brush up on outside of that environment. This was thorough, entertaining, and not bogged down by hardware specific implementation details. Subbed and looking forward to all of your future work 👍

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I think this is the first video I've ever seen from this channel. Really liked it.

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Excellent, as an embedded software dev, these kind of videos are a rare gem. Keep em coming

[@cole.maxwell]

Wow this was awesome! In all of the discussions on stacks and heaps I have heard online and in university I’ve never heard anybody explained that the CPU has a stack register. I can believe I didn’t know that. Makes a lot more sense why the access is so fast.

[@Turalcar]

There are also register stacks. e.g. in SPARC. I could try to explain it in a comment but the Wikipedia article does it better.

[@yosfodey2073]

That was the best explanation of memory stack I have ever seen.

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This is a very well-made video about stacks. Nicely done. 5 gold stars for you.

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wow i got recommended this video and damn it makes it so easy to understand with animations man THANK YOU!

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[@tristan4491]

I'm learning about memory allocation in c++. (self taught). I have watched numerous videos on stack / heap. They are all very confusing and the fact that you did this so well in such a short time is of great value to me. I know have a understanding of whether i want to choose stack or heap. I also understand why i would use the smallest primitive type possible so that the cache is not wasted. Very greatful. Thankyou

[@nagoshi01]

Can't wait for the Heap video!! This was great

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This is amazing, looking forward to learn more about optimisation and security

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[@patrickc.6183]

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[@theoryofimagination5214]

awesome video, just like the last one. please do make a video about the heap and virtual memory. thank you, stay well

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[@himhimlo126]

Thank you very much~ I totally love this video. I finally make myself clearly understand these foundation knowledge;) I have been told again and again that allocating in stack is faster than in heap but no one try to tell me why before you XD. Thanks thanks thanks~

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Amazing video and the visuals were really on point. Thanks!

[@zonn8954]

Very good video, the only point missing is why their is padding and memory alignment. The answer is that it is still cache related, but it's a little more complex so understandable it was not mentioned.

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Most of this stuff I already knew. But I was always concerned about knowledge holes. The way you explain things in your heap video and ESPECIALLY this one reassured me of the things I knew, explained things I never questioned just enough to allow me to piece the rest together by myself and explain things I didn't know before so well I could just pick them up without issue. If I had to suggest one thing it would be to make followup episodes on topics to explain more advanced concepts. Like in which direction does the stack grow and why? How do function calls store data on the stack to return? What are stack cookies and how do they contribute to security against buffer overflows? How does malloc organize the heap? Stuff like that for example. You don't see this often on KZbin at all. Take my sub! If I had the money I would become a member without second thought.

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This video is great also for those who already understands the concepts, because they always struggles to explain memory management of OS due to its complexity.

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