Garbage collection

  • Authors:

  • David H. Bartley

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • Encyclopedia of Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Many programming languages and systems provide for dynamic as well as static allocation of memory storage for data objects. The performance of these systems relies on their ability to reclaim and reuse storage for dynamically allocated objects after they are no longer needed by the executing program