In computer science, garbage collection (GC) is a form of automatic memory management. The garbage collector attempts to reclaim memory that was allocated...

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...

management. Garbage collection may also refer to: Garbage collection (computer science), in automatic memory management Garbage collection (SSD), in flash...

common component in computers Garbage collection (computer science), a form of automatic memory management GenerativeComponents, computer-aided design software...

Garbage may also refer to: Litter, improperly disposed waste products Garbage (computer science), unreferenced data in a computer's memory Garbage (band)...

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...

abstract concept of collections in computer science Collection (linking), the act of linkage editing in computing Garbage collection (computing), automatic...

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...

In computer science, a record (also called a structure, struct, or compound data type) is a composite data structure – a collection of fields, possibly...

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...

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...

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...

design of the language ALGOL, popularized time-sharing, and invented garbage collection. McCarthy spent most of his career at Stanford University. He received...

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...

scattered around. Divers can also be seriously injured or killed by garbage collection vehicles; in January 2012, in La Jolla, Swiss-American man Alfonso...

In computer science, thrashing occurs in a system with virtual memory when a computer's real storage resources are overcommitted, leading to a constant...

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...

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson...

garbage. Up until the mid-1990s, the majority of programming languages used in industry supported manual memory management, though garbage collection...

Wisconsin) was an American mathematician and computer scientist. He is the inventor of garbage collection by reference counting[G60] and of the method...

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...

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...

increasing scavenging garbage collection effectiveness - (Jan 20, 2004) Method and apparatus for testing a process in a computer system - (Jul 15, 2003)...

in the case of a closure. Unless the programming language features garbage collection, a variable whose extent permanently outlasts its scope can result...

In computer science, a mark–compact algorithm is a type of garbage collection algorithm used to reclaim unreachable memory. Mark–compact algorithms can...

The garbage can model (also known as garbage can process, or garbage can theory) describes the chaotic reality of organizational decision making in an...

microcode alone was responsible for storage allocation, deallocation and garbage collection. This immediately precluded a whole class of errors arising from the...

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"...

2014-01-24. Zorn, Benjamin (1990). Barrier methods for Garbage Collection. Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado in Boulder: Citeseer. pp. 11–18...

In computer science, boxing (a.k.a. wrapping) is the transformation of placing a primitive type within an object so that the value can be used as a reference...