title: Method Area and PermGen
body: <p>I was trying to understand the memory structure of HotSpot JVM and got confused with the two terms <strong>"Method Area"</strong> and <strong>"PermGen"</strong> space. The docs I referred to say that Method Area contains the definition of classes and methods including the byte code. Some other docs say that they are stored in the PermGen space. </p>
  
  <p>So can I conclude that these two memory areas are <strong>same</strong>?</p>