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| | GC FAQ -- draft |
 | | Garbage collection is a part of a language's runtime system, or an add-on library, perhaps assisted by the compiler, the hardware, the OS, or any combination of the three, that automatically determines what memory a program is no longer using, and recycles it for other use. |
 | | If a program is developed using garbage collection, and the collector is taken away, then yes, the result may contain bugs in the form of memory leaks. |
 | | The program may want know what objects are in existence for, say, accounting purposes but does not want the mechanism of accounting to prevent objects from otherwise being freed. |
| www.iecc.com /gclist/GC-faq.html (1941 words) |
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