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		Someone on May 14, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The C++ Programming Language (4th Edition) With Gargage collection, there are ni deallocations. Also, garbage collection does not "harvest for memory locations that need to be freed and frees them.". Garbage collection does not collect garbage, it collects used space.

zura on May 15, 2013 [–]

I think you're misinformed.

Here are some more details if you're interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_sc...

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