Chapter 5. Managed Heap and Garbage Collection

Manual memory management is a very common source of errors in applications today. As a matter of fact, several online studies indicate that the most common errors are related to manual memory management. Examples of such problems include

image Dangling pointers

image Double free

image Memory leaks

Automatic memory management serves to remove the tedious and error-prone process of managing memory manually. Even though ...

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