"Memory Heap" the Misnomer
Nov 7, 2021
Do you know that memory heap has nothing to do with heap as a data structure?
Clearly many don't. Even the top ranked article confuses these two:
Definitions
Heap is a tree-like data structure which its root as either min/max. It can be used as a priority queue.
Memory heap is simply a bunch of memory for programs to allocate and de-allocate. It is NOT a priority queue or using heap as a data structure.
Why the misnomer?
From StackOverflow, it seems like
an unfortunate misnomer because the word heap is commonly
used in English.
memory pool would have been a better name for memory heap.