One algorithm that implements this process moves two "fingers" towards one another and moves touched data to the other semispace to achieve compaction.
One algorithm that implements this process moves two "fingers" towards one another and moves touched data to the other semispace to achieve compaction. Some implementations of this process, called "tracing", typically identify targets described as "syntactic", which are strictly unreachable. This process can be undone by "resurrection", which can be triggered by a finalizer. The mark-sweep method, implemented in LISP, was the first method for doing this task, which is performed once there are no more strong references to an allocated location. Languages that implement this process prevent some classes of dangling pointer bugs and memory leaks. For 10 points, name this process that is done in languages like Java to automatically manage memory.
One algorithm that implements this process moves two "fingers" towards one another and moves touched data to the other semispace to achieve compaction.
garbage collection [or word forms; or GC; prompt on partial answer; prompt on "deallocating memory" or "freeing memory" or "compacting memory" or "(automatic) memory management" or word forms]