What does the term allocation mean?

I meet him periodically, but only in context:

  1. Effective memory allocation
  2. Creating an allocator when creating an object
  3. Synchronization of allocating threads, etc.

And what it is not seen a clear definition.

  • I typed in Google the query "java location" and got a whole bunch of Russian-language articles from which it is easy to understand the meaning of this term. - Hivemaster
  • Immediately it is clear that I didn’t cod in it, then you immediately see the alloc() function and immediately understand what it’s all about :) - Barmaley

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Means the allocation of a block of memory, most often in a heap.

    Tracing from English allocation - distribution. The meaning is literal. Manage memory, allocate it, etc.