Garbage Collection (GC)

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Automatic memory management that reclaims memory no longer in use by the program. Different GC algorithms offer tradeoffs between throughput, latency (pause times), memory overhead, and implementation complexity.

Concepts

• Mark-and-Sweep
• Generational GC
• Concurrent GC
• Reference Counting
• Cycle Detection
• GC Tuning

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