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the program's way of cleaning its room without ever being asked twice.
means an automatic process that frees up memory by destroying objects the program no longer uses.
from coined in 1959 by john mccarthy for lisp, borrowing the metaphor of city sanitation to describe reclaiming unused memory automatically.
pausescan freeze programs mid-run, called stop-the-world
languagesjava, python, go all built-in
oppositec and rust make you take out trash manually
costtrades speed for safety from memory leaks