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Garbage collection (computer science)

Posted on June 21, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Stop-and-copy garbage collection in a Lisp architecture. Memory is divided into working and free memory; new objects are allocated in the former. … “In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts … Continue reading →

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