Tutorial by Topics: garbage

At its core, Python's garbage collector (as of 3.5) is a simple reference counting implementation. Every time you make a reference to an object (for example, a = myobject) the reference count on that object (myobject) is incremented. Every time a reference gets removed, the reference count is dec...

collectgarbage(gcrule [, gcdata]) -- collect garbage using gcrule setmetatable(tab, {__mode = weakmode}) -- set weak mode of tab to weakmode parameterdetailsgcrule & gcdataAction to gc (garbage collector): "stop" (stop collecting), "restart" (start collecting again),...

Garbage Collection (GC) is a way of automatically reclaiming memory that is occupied by objects that are no longer needed by a program. This is in contrast with manual memory management where the programmer explicitly specifies which objects should be deallocated and returned to memory. Good GC-s...

In .Net, objects created with new() are allocated on the managed heap. These objects are never explicitly finalized by the program that uses them; instead, this process is controlled by the .Net Garbage Collector. Some of the examples below are "lab cases" to show the Garbage Collector at...