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Shankar ChandraBose
912 PointsDifference between Object equality and object reference equality ?
What is the meaning of object equality and object reference equality ?
1 Answer
Patrick Y.
3,052 PointsObject Equality (equals) means whether two objects are equal to each other. It does not matter where the object resides in memory, so even if two objects reside in different location in memory, they are consider equal as long as they are the same thing.
Object reference equality (==) has to do with the location of the objects in memory. It checks to see if two objects reference the same memory location, aka whether they are pointing to the same spot in memory.
Its important to understand how two objects can be the same, but they are stored in different memory location.