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Started by DevilsCharm, Nov 07 2007 05:47 PM

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Posted 07 November 2007 - 05:47 PM

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I know little about C#, but what is garbage collection? It sounds like an interesting concept and I would like to understand it.

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Posted 08 November 2007 - 09:41 AM

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Garbage collection is a language feature that takes care of cleaning up memory for you when pointers, etc go out of scope.
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Posted 09 November 2007 - 12:23 PM

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Does C++ have that feature too? Is it very helpful?

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Posted 09 November 2007 - 05:28 PM

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Managed C++ has the garbage collector. This is a MS Visual Studio thing. It frees the programmer from worrying about things such as deleting pointers and memory leaks.

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Posted 12 November 2007 - 09:39 AM

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There are libraries that offer tools such as "smart pointers" to give C++ that functionality. It is not part of the language itself.
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