A garbage collector is a hidden background tool that cleans unused application memory automatically. It’s necessary for languages which aren’t providing any way to explicitly deleting created reference objects on the heap, like Java and C#.<\/p>\n
Strategies<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Reference counting <\/u> Adaptation: In C++ smart pointers implementing this strategy, but they have to be used explicitly and they do the reference counting by them self.<\/p>\n Disadvantage: Cyclic references can’t be resolved automatically.<\/p>\n 2. Tracing<\/u> Algorithms: Improvement: Implementation of the concept of generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A garbage collector is a hidden background tool that cleans unused application memory automatically. It’s necessary for languages which aren’t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16779,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9535\/revisions\/16779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.max-sperling.bplaced.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFor every reference object it keeps a reference counter and if that hits zero that object gets destroyed.<\/p>\n
\nIt keeps a graph of the reference objects and if there is no way to a ref. object anymore it destroys it.<\/p>\n
\n– Mark-and-Sweep (Fragments the heap)
\n– Stop-and-Copy (Consumes much heap)
\n– Mark-and-Compact (Defragmentation takes time)<\/p>\n