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 which 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.Garbage collection relieves the programmer from doing manual memory management, where the programmer specifies what objects to de-allocate and return to the memory system and when to do so.