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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)

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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools - Section 7.5

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