Garbage Collection: Automatische Speicherbereinigung
Eine Form der automatischen Speicherverwaltung.
In high-level languages like Java, C#, and JavaScript, developers don't need to manually free memory. The Garbage Collector periodicially scans the 'heap' to find objects that have no active references. By automating this, GC prevents common bugs like memory leaks and 'use-after-free' errors. However, GC can introduce latency due to 'stop-the-world' pauses where the application must wait for the collector to finish. Modern collectors minimize this using parallel or concurrent algorithms.
graph LR
Center["Garbage Collection: Automatische Speicherbereinigung"]:::main
Rel_memory_management["memory-management"]:::related -.-> Center
click Rel_memory_management "/terms/memory-management"
Rel_cpu_cache["cpu-cache"]:::related -.-> Center
click Rel_cpu_cache "/terms/cpu-cache"
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Tracing GC (like Mark-Sweep) builds a graph of all reachable objects starting from 'roots' (stack, globals). Refence Counting (used in Python/Swift) immediately deletes objects when their count hits zero. Generational GC leverages the 'weak generational hypothesis': that most objects die young. It divides the heap into 'Eden', 'Survivor', and 'Tenured' spaces, collecting the younger spaces more frequently.