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▸ noun: (programming) A form of garbage collection in which every accessible object in memory is flagged, leaving unflagged only those that are no longer reachable and can thus be discarded.
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▸ noun: (programming) A form of garbage collection in which every accessible object in memory is flagged, leaving unflagged only those that are no longer reachable and can thus be discarded.
Similar:
garbage collection,
garbage collector,
finalizer,
soft reference,
memory hole,
strong reference,
tree shaking,
soft deletion,
data scrubbing,
memo,
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