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Garbage Collection

Garbage collection is the automatic deallocation of unreachable heap objects.

Related concepts:  Allocation

Closest Wikipedia entry:  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 in Lisp.

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools - Section 7.5

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