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Describe the main JVM memory areas.
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The heap stores objects and is shared by all threads; it is managed by the garbage collector and split into young and old generations. Each thread has its own stack holding method frames, local variables and references. Metaspace, in native memory since Java 8, stores class metadata. There is also the program counter per thread and the code cache for JIT-compiled code. Stack overflow comes from deep recursion, while OutOfMemoryError usually means heap or metaspace is full.