Memory management: deallocation (Garbage Collection)

In this article, we discuss garbage collection, a mechanism that is performed by the garbage collector which reclaims memory that it can prove is not used.

Table of Contents.Introduction.Garbage collection.Garbage collection as a graph traversal problem.Assumptions in garbage collection.Garbage collection algorithms.Summary.ReferencesIntroduction.

Traditional memory management divides memory into 3 categories namely, global data, the stack and the heap.

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Global data is a collection of ...