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#109 How Is Memory Managed by Programmers?
Kopec Explains Software
The Benefits of Garbage Collection
Garbage collection goes back to the invention of Lisp in the late 1950s. In garbage collection, at least classic garbage collection using what's called a tracing collector. The programming languages runtime keeps track of every allocation of memory. Collectors have gotten a lot better over the last decade, but there still is a performance hit.
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