In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated...
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In computer science, garbage includes data, objects, or other regions of the memory of a computer system (or other system resources), which will not be...
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management. Garbage collection may also refer to: Garbage collection (computer science), in automatic memory management Garbage collection (SSD), in flash...
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Garbage may also refer to: Litter, improperly disposed waste products Garbage (computer science), unreferenced data in a computer's memory Garbage (band)...
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In computer science, data (treated as singular, plural, or as a mass noun) is any sequence of one or more symbols; datum is a single symbol of data. Data...
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (also Pacific trash vortex and North Pacific Garbage Patch) is a garbage patch, a gyre of marine debris particles, in the...
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In computer science, a record (also called a structure, struct, user-defined type (UDT), or compound data type) is a composite data structure – a collection...
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design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection. McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University. He received...
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson...
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in v. The maximum out-degree is one. These graphs are valuable in garbage collection, where they can be used to separate accessible from inaccessible objects...
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Waste container (redirect from Mobile garbage bin)
A waste container, also known as a dustbin, rubbish bin, trash can, garbage can, wastepaper basket, and wastebasket, among other names, is a type of container...
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Reference counting (section Garbage collection)
such as an object, a block of memory, disk space, and others. In garbage collection algorithms, reference counts may be used to deallocate objects that...
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garbage. Up until the mid-1990s, the majority of programming languages used in industry supported manual memory management, though garbage collection...
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In computer science, coalescing is a part of memory management in which two adjacent free blocks of computer memory are merged. When a program no longer...
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In computer science, thrashing occurs in a system with memory paging when a computer's real memory (RAM) resources are overcommitted, leading to a constant...
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This glossary of computer science is a list of definitions of terms and concepts used in computer science, its sub-disciplines, and related fields, including...
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George E. Collins (category American computer scientists)
Wisconsin) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is the inventor of garbage collection by reference counting[G60] and of the method...
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Region-based memory management (redirect from Region (computer science))
In computer science, region-based memory management is a type of memory management in which each allocated object is assigned to a region. A region, also...
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abstract concept of collections in computer science Collection (linking), the act of linkage editing in computing Garbage collection (computing), automatic...
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Dumpster diving (redirect from Garbage pick)
9781412988193. (2012). Encyclopedia of Consumption and Waste: The Social Science of Garbage. Sage Publishing. ISBN 9781412988193.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple...
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Memory leak (redirect from Leakage (computer science))
In computer science, a memory leak is a type of resource leak that occurs when a computer program incorrectly manages memory allocations in a way that...
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David Ungar (category American computer programmers)
increasing scavenging garbage collection effectiveness - (Jan 20, 2004) Method and apparatus for testing a process in a computer system - (Jul 15, 2003)...
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Write barrier (category Computer science stubs)
2014-01-24. Zorn, Benjamin (1990). Barrier methods for Garbage Collection. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado in Boulder: Citeseer. pp. 11–18...
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in the case of a closure. Unless the programming language features garbage collection, a variable whose extent permanently outlasts its scope can result...
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references to them. This is most commonly implemented using some form of garbage collection. A closure can be used to associate a function with a set of "private"...
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"Computers Don't Argue" is a 1965 science fiction short story by American writer Gordon R. Dickson, about the dangers of relying too strongly upon computers...
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Kathryn S. McKinley (category American women computer scientists)
received a B.A. in computer science and engineering from Rice University in 1985. She went on to earn an M.S. in computer science from Rice University...
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OpenJ9 (section Garbage collector)
be reclaimed. This process is known as garbage collection (GC). OpenJ9 provides a number of garbage collection policies that are designed around different...
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Cargo cult programming (category Computer programming folklore)
a programming paradigm, or adding deletion code for objects that garbage collection automatically collects. Cargo cults are millenarian movements that...
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