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If the operating enviroment has the responsibility to re-claim un-used objects than some kind method to do this is required. There seem to be two different ways to do this.

In practice, a combination of the two above methods might be used. Usually garbage collection runs as a background process with a way to explicitly invoke the garbage collector.

This is related to VirtualMemory. When free memory becomes scarce, the operating system has two choices: (a) Run garbage collection, or (b) Swap unused pages to a persistent storage medium.

See GarbageCollectionLinks for more information.


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