To aid in performing this process, Smalltalk and Racket make use of ephemerons.
To aid in performing this process, Smalltalk and Racket make use of ephemerons. A lazy algorithm developed for this process by Lins works most efficiently when side effects are rare. One package for this purpose in C was developed by Boehm, Demers, and Weiser. A new heap is created and live objects moved to it in Cheney's algorithm for this process. All methods for performing it on the Java virtual machine are stop-the-world. This process can make use of a finalizer. The tracing that precedes this process is often used instead of reference counting, and can be accomplished by Dijkstra's three-color or mark-sweep techniques. For 10 points, name this automatic type of memory management which frees up space taken by objects that are no longer used.
To aid in performing this process, Smalltalk and Racket make use of ephemerons.
garbage collection [or GC , accept word forms]