Java – Does null variable require space in memory

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In Java, null is just a value that a reference (which is basically a restricted pointer) can have. It means that the reference refers to nothing. In this case you still consume the space for the reference. This is 4 bytes on 32-bit systems or 8 bytes on 64-bit systems. However, you’re not consuming any space for the class that the reference points to until you actually allocate an instance of that class to point the reference at.

Edit: As far as the String, a String in Java takes 16 bits (2 bytes) for each character, plus a small amount of book-keeping overhead, which is probably undocumented and implementation specific.

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