How is memory allocated in int array

Question

How much space does a int array take up? Or how much space (in bytes) does a int array consumes that looks something like this:

 int[] SampleArray=new int[         


        

Answer 1

In Java int[] array is an Object which in memory represented by the header (8 bytes for x86) and int length field (4 bytes) followed by array of ints (arrayLength * 4).

   approxSize = 8 + 4 + 4 * arraylength 

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