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Garbage collection (computer science)

In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated by the program, but is no longer referenced; such memory is called garbage. Garbage collection was invented by American computer scientist John McCarthy around 1959 to simplify manual memory management…

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Garbage collection (computer science)

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garbage collection memory management reference objects languages gc collector manual counting tracing java 10 program computer use real-time performance programming

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reference countinginstance ofrather than other methods0.80text
compare-and-swapinstance ofmay need to be atomic operations0.80text
at least for any objects which are sharedinstance ofmay need to be atomic operations0.80text
or potentially shared among multiple threadsinstance ofmay need to be atomic operations0.80text
Smalltalkinstance ofObject-oriented programming languages0.80text
ooRexxinstance ofObject-oriented programming languages0.80text
RPLinstance ofObject-oriented programming languages0.80text
Java usually provide integrated garbage collectioninstance ofObject-oriented programming languages0.80text
Boehm garbage collectorinstance ofsome garbage collectors0.80text

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