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Garbage Collection (GC) comprises strategies by managed runtimes to detect unreachable objects and reclaim their memory automatically. Common approaches include tracing collectors (mark-sweep, generational, incremental, concurrent) and reference counting with cycle detection. The goal is to avoid memory leaks, eliminate manual deallocation, and balance laten…
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Automatically detect and reclaim memory that programs can no longer reach.
Garbage collection grew from the need to manage dynamic objects without tracking every release manually. Runtimes refined it with generations, concurrency, and compaction.
The runtime marks objects reachable from roots and removes the rest. The collector determines pauses, CPU use, and predictability.
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Automatic memory management simplifies development but must fit the latency architecture of real-time and memory-sensitive systems.
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