Tracing garbage collection
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tracing-garbage-collection-182-16579335
title:
Tracing garbage collection
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In computer programming, tracing garbage collection is a form of automatic memory management that consists of determining which objects should be deallocated by tracing which objects are reachable by a chain of references from certain "root" objects, and considering the rest as "garbage" and collecting them. Tracing is the most common type of garbage collection – so much so that "garbage collection" often refers to the tracing method, rather than others such as reference counting – and there are
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Form of computer memory management
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracing_garbage_collection
date created:
2004-01-18T01:20:28Z
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2024-09-07T02:43:37Z
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