garbage collection

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Noun

garbage collection (usually uncountable, plural garbage collections)

  1. (Canada, US) A service, generally run by local government, for transporting household garbage to the appropriate facility.
    Synonym: rubbish collection
  2. (programming) An automatic mechanism that frees up resources (such as allocated memory) that are no longer in use.
    Synonym: GC
  • 2016, Richard Jones, Antony Hosking, Eliot Moss, The Garbage Collection Handbook, CRC Press, →ISBN:
    Generational garbage collection has proved to be a highly effective organisation, offering significant performance improvements for a wide range of applications.
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