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garbage collection automatic garbage collection automatic memory management Compacting garbage collection Compile-time garbage collection

In computer science, garbage collection is a form of automatic memory management. Wikipedia

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In computer science, garbage collection is a form of automatic memory management. Wikipedia

Automatic memory management method Wikipedia Disambiguation

Form of automatic memory management Wikidata

An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use. Wiktionary

Programming. Wiktionary (translation)

Garbage collection isn’t foolproof, but it eliminates large classes of memory errors. Wiktionary

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dynamic memory allocation

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Distributed garbage collection

reference counting

Deterministic garbage collector

mark-compact algorithm

concurrent mark sweep collector

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operating system

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garbage collection (computer science)

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garbage collection

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garbage collection

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automatic garbage collection, automatic memory management, Compacting garbage collection, Compile-time garbage collection, Computer memory garbage collection, garbage collected, Garbage collected language, Garbage collection (computing), Generational GC, Moving garbage collector, Object pinning, Parallel scavenge garbage collector, root set, Stop-the-world gc, tracing garbage collector