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What is the purpose of garbage collection

The purpose of garbage collection is to identify and discard objects that are no longerneeded by a programso that their resources may be reclaimed and reused.
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Sandhya.Kishan

Answered On : Jun 15th, 2012

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The purpose of garbage collection is to remove the unused variables/objects (value is null) from the memory,so that their resources can be reclaimed and reused by other programs.

  
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