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  3. June 2008

Re: the advantages of garbage collection

David Gibbs wrote:

Generally speaking GC is used to free up memory occupied by data that
is no longer used. This is not a function a programmer can or should
be doing. In fact, I think it's generally a function outside of what an
application programmer can really do.

Seems to me that this is saying "Garbage collection only collects garbage."

I.e., there is zero point to 'garbage collection' when no garbage is generated. This is even true if it's only that garbage can't be recognized.

Tom Liotta


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