Garbage Collection Explained
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Why should you care? When a program creates objects, those objects need memory. For example: Person user = new Person (); At some point, the program may stop using that object. The question is: Who gets that memory back? In languages with garbage collection, the runtime can automatically identify o…
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- 2026-08-28 04:30 · DEV Community — AI
Garbage Collection Explained