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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications
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Java 9: Building Robust Modular Applications

by Dr. Edward Lavieri, Peter Verhas, Jason Lee
April 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
910 pages
33h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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Overview of garbage collection

Garbage collection is the mechanism used in Java to deallocate unused memory. Essentially, when an object is created, memory space is allocated and dedicated to that object until it no longer has any references pointing to it. At that time, the system deallocates the memory. Java performs this garbage collection automatically for us, which can lead to a lack of attention to memory usage and poor programming practices in the area of memory management and system performance.

Java's garbage collection is considered an automatic memory management schema because programmers do not have to designate objects as ready to be deallocated. The garbage collection runs on a low-priority thread and, as you will read later ...

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