Tell me about garbage collection programming

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Posted On: Feb 22, 2018

 

Garbage collection is the collection or gaining the memory back from the objects. The memory collected are not in use at the moment in any part of the program where the object is used. This process frees up the memory space that is no longer used by the objects and such. This process is implemented differently in different languages. Most of the high-level programming languages have garbage collection process built into it. Low-level programming languages add garbage collection processes through external libraries. For eg: In C programming language, the garbage collection is taken care of by the user by using the malloc() and dealloc() functions. In C# programming language, the garbage collection is taken care of automatically. Users don’t need to do anything.

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