Advanced Design Strategy and Software
Garbage collection is an automatic memory management process that reclaims memory allocated to objects that are no longer in use by a program. This helps optimize the performance of applications by preventing memory leaks and ensuring efficient use of memory resources, particularly in environments where dynamic memory allocation is frequent, such as animations. By handling the deallocation of memory automatically, garbage collection allows developers to focus on application logic rather than manual memory management.
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