Java 23 for Absolute Beginners: Learn the Fundamentals of Java Programming

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I. CosminaJava 23 for Absolute Beginnershttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-1041-1_13

13. Garbage Collection

Iuliana Cosmina¹  

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Edinburgh, UK

 

When executing Java code, objects are created, used, and discarded repeatedly from memory. The process through which unused Java objects are discarded is called memory management but is most commonly known as garbage collection (GC). Garbage collection was mentioned in Chapter 5, as it was necessary for explaining the difference between primitive and reference types, but in this chapter we will go deep under the hood of the JVM to resolve yet another mystery of a running Java application.

When the Java Garbage Collector ...