I've been using the blackboard a little ad hoc here, but suppose I neaten things up here now and present this rectangle is let's say R RAM, the memory inside of your computer.

我在这里特别地使用这块黑板，假如我整理这些东西，把它们呈现,这个长方形，假如说就是内存，你电脑的内存。

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All right so it has to live in RAM as opposed to the hard drive because otherwise things would be terribly slow as you know so it's much better if your programs live while they're running in RAM and they end up in what's called the tech segment.

好的，它存在内存中，而不是硬盘中,因为，否则程序会非常的缓慢,程序在内存中运行会好得多,它们在技术段,的地方结束。

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It ends up at the top most portion of the computer's RAM.

在内存中的顶部结束。

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So, conceptually if you've ever wondered why you get access in all of your functions to global variables that's because they're not down here, they're at the very top of RAM and any function can access that RAM way up there, but for now the interesting player in the story is this thing called the heap.

所以，如果你想知道为什么全局变量能在,所有的函数中使用,那是因为它们不在这下面，而是在内存的顶端,那样任意函数都可以在内存中使用它们，现在，这里面一个有用的角色是,叫做堆的东西。

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And, again, the rectangle represents your computer's RAM, the bottom represents the part of RAM that we generally call the stack, main conceptually ends up on the bottom of the stack followed foo by its local variables then the function say foo that it calls and on and on and on and up, but there is, in fact, something above all of this and we've seen this picture briefly and that's this thing called the heap.

再次，矩形表示的是计算机内存，底端表示内存的一部分,通常我们把它叫做堆栈，main函数在,堆栈的底端，之后是,它的局部变量，然后是它调用的函数,等等等等，但是那里有，实际上，在这个上面，我们粗略看看这个图画,这个东西叫做堆。

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