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📚 The Mojo Manual
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1 Get Started2 Language Basics3 Value Ownership4 Value Lifecycle5 Metaprogramming6 Pointers7 GPU Programming8 TileTensor9 Layouts and LayoutTensor10 Python Interop

Chapter 3: Value Ownership

A program is nothing without data, and all modern programming languages store data in one of two places: the call stack and the heap (also sometimes in CPU registers, but we won't get into that here). However, each language reads and writes data a bit differently—sometimes very differently. So in the following sections, we'll explain how Mojo manages memory in your programs and how this affects the way you write Mojo code.

Adapted from the Mojo Manual, part of the Modular Platform repository (github.com/modular/modular), Copyright (c) Modular Inc., licensed under the Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions. Changes were made: reformatted as an accessible XYZ web edition with build-verified example outputs. Mojo is a trademark of Modular Inc.; this edition is not affiliated with or endorsed by Modular. License: Apache-2.0 WITH LLVM-exception.