#109 How Is Memory Managed by Programmers?
Kopec Explains Software
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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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