Size taken by stack frame

Question

Java stack create new frame for every method call, But does this frame takes memory on the stack?

To clarify on my question :

public void oneWay()
{
  System.out.println("start");
  get1();
}

private void get1()
{
  System.out.println("get1");
  get2();
}

private void get2()
{
  System.out.println("get2");
}

Output of this is same as :

public void anotherWay()
{
  System.out.println("start");
  System.out.println("get1");
  System.out.println("get2");
}

But does second snippet takes more memory on stack or equal? In short, does stack frame take memory?

EDIT : How much memory does a stack frame take? Is there any specification by Sun, now Oracle?

Answer 1

Yes, naturally. That's why you get a stack overflow if you nest too deep. You can use the -Xss command line switch to modify the stack size, if you find that you need to have a bigger (or smaller) stack for your threads.

The specification seems to allow a lot of freedom for the implementation, so all in all, you can't really rely on stack frame size.