User:Trustable/Memory management

This page should explain different techniques of Memory management in programming languages.

Manual memory management

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E.g. malloc() and free() in C.

Cons:

Tracing garbage collection

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Used by:

Cons:

  • Runtime costs

Reference counting with tracing garbage collection

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The tracing part is needed for cycle detection.

Used by:

Cons:

  • Runtime costs

Reference counting with ownership

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Used by:

Cons:

  • Runtime costs
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