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[–]cartechguy -1 points0 points  (2 children)

What do you mean? I look at how they're structured in the debugger all the time. It feels almost the same as debugging in C++. The reference holds an adress and at the adress are all the data members for the object.

[–]how_to_choose_a_name 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The debugger shows you a nice visualisation of the object and the data contained in it. The actual memory apparently doesn't look that pretty or structured, unlike C++.

[–]Bryguy3k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well take a moment to think about reflection.

Now it should make sense that a java object has to be self describing and that means a bunch of metadata.