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Allocation and Deallocation of Objects

• From where are objects allocated?
  • Stack-allocated objects are more efficient, but then not all object references are uniform
  • If they all live in the heap, references to then are uniform, but there is a (minor) performance penalty

• Is allocation implicit or explicit?

• How is aliasing handled?

• What is the semantics of assignment?

• Is deallocation explicit or implicit?