Stack is a portion of RAM used for saving the content of Program Counter and general purpose registers.
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Boxing converts a value-type to a reference-type, thus storing the object on the heap. Unboxing converts a reference-type to a value-type, thus storing the value on the stack.
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Structs are value-type variables and are thus saved on the stack, additional overhead but faster retrieval. Another difference is that structs cannot inherit.
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It is an actual offset (at the assembly language level) - not an offset into the IL instructions.
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They die when they are pulled off the stack (go out of scope).
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Allocate a block of memory on the stack (used in unsafe mode).
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Converting a value type (stack->heap) to a reference type (heap->stack), and vise-versa.
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