Tracing garbage collection
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In computer programming, tracing garbage collection is a form of automatic memory management that consists of determining which objects should be deallocated ("garbage collected") by tracing which objects are reachable by a chain of references from certain "root" objects, and considering the rest as "garbage" and collecting them. Tracing is the most common type of garbage collection – so much so that "garbage collection" often refers to the tracing method, rather than others such as reference counting – and there are a large number of algorithms used in implementation.
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