Java内存开发,Java内存分配

"Short" in java occupies 2 bytes in memory with numeric range as -32768 to 32767 .

Let''s declare a variable of that type as,

short var ;

var=5;

Now, this value 5 also comes under the range of "Byte" datatype(from -128 to 127) ,but still it occupies 2 bytes in memory as it is a "short" variable.

Why did java not allowed implicit typecasting while dealing with such scenarios to make efficient use of memory?

解决方案What in a future point in time you assign 1000 to your var and it was stored in a byte?

You would corrupt the memory!

These choices were made with a lot of thinking behind them, please do not question them unless you have checked everything, and are offering something better.

Typecasting would not make any difference as var is declared as a short type so it cannot be changed as the program is running. Consider something like:

short var;

var = 5;

//...

//do some processing

//...

var = 300;

//what happens now if var had been dynamically changed to byte?