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Garbage Collection

Garbage Collection is a memory management mechanism that automatically reclaims memory blocks no longer accessible by a program, distinguished from manual memory management by its runtime determination of object lifetimes through reachability analysis.

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AddressSanitizer: a fast address sanity checker

Konstantin Serebryany, Derek Bruening, Alexander Potapenko et al. · USENIX Annual Technical Conference · 2012 · 642 citations

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Garbage collection in an uncooperative environment

Hans‐Juergen Boehm, Mark Weiser · Software Practice and Experience · 1988 · 630 citations

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List processing in real time on a serial computer

Henry G. Baker · Communications of the ACM · 1978 · 592 citations · Full text

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A real-time garbage collector based on the lifetimes of objects

Henry Lieberman, Carl Hewitt · Communications of the ACM · 1983 · 572 citations · Full text

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On-the-fly garbage collection

Edsger W. Dijkstra, Leslie Lamport, Alain J. Martin et al. · Communications of the ACM · 1978 · 559 citations · Full text

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    Kathryn S. McKinley

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

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    Australian National University, Australia

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    Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel

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    Perry Cheng

    IBM (United States), United States

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