Garbage collection (computer science)
form of automatic memory management From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When a computer program is run, it will use memory, to store certain values. While these values are used, there is a reference to them. When they are no longer used, there are no more references. Clearing the parts of memory which a computer program used, but where there are no more references is called garbage collection.
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