garbage collection
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3.8
- noun
- /ˈɡɑːrbɪdʒ kəˈlɛkʃən/
- Specialized
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recolección de basura
- It's important to monitor garbage collection events to understand how memory is managed during the application's runtime.
- efficiency of garbage collection
- garbage collection mechanism
- average efficiency of garbage collection
Unlike other program languages, for what we know today, Carbon does not use any formal garbage collection.
- Unlike other program languages, for what we know today, Carbon does not use any formal garbage collection.
- There are also constructs that you can use if you if you want to use that reference counting sort of garbage collection style of things.
- Yeah, not to defend Java or anything, but, you know, the C++, you know, you could also have great garbage collection in Python And so on.
Examples
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The longer garbage collection is delayed, the greater the accumulation of garbage sectors in the clusters.
Academic text (1995) -
Start the garbage collection as late as possible in order to improve the efficiency of garbage collection.
Academic text (1995) -
So the idea of garbage collection is to free the programmer from having to free objects.
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If the number of blank sectors goes below tb, garbage collection is automatically triggered.
Academic text (1995) -
For example, the Verve specification of garbage collection does not specify which algorithm the garbage collector should implement.
Academic text (2011) -
In general, the kernel decides policies, such as when a particular thread should run or when a garbage collection should take place, while the nucleus implements mechanisms like context switching and garbage collection.
Academic text (2011) -
The programmer was relieved when the garbage collection process automatically freed unused memory, allowing the application to run smoothly.
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Improving the timing of garbage collection can significantly enhance the performance of memory-intensive applications.
Synonyms
To free memory or other resources so programs can use them again
How Automatic
- Specialized
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- Specialized
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is compositionally a noun phrase meaning 'a collection of garbage', so a B1 learner who knows 'garbage' and 'collection' can infer a general sense of gathering or removing waste. However, the computing sense (automatic reclamation of unused memory) is a domain-specific, metaphorical extension of that literal meaning and the precise technical function is not fully predictable from the constituents alone.
Etymology
The computing sense of garbage collection comes from that same image: when a computer no longer needs some data, the data is like garbage and the system 'collects' it to free up 'memory'. That's why it means an automatic process that removes unused data so space can be reused.