Most modern programming languages use garbage collection, but developers have options for how it is implemented and tuned. Get an overview of how garbage collection works in languages such as Java, ...

The Java platform’s garbage collection mechanism greatly increases developer productivity, but a poorly implemented garbage collector can over-consume application resources. In this third article in ...

This may be a language dependent thing, or something I'm missing something fundamental, but here's the scene in a sort of pseudo code. The method scope ends. In what order does the garbage collector ...

I have Visual Studio .NET and I was fooling around with Microsoft's Managed Extensions. They let you write garbage collected objects in C++, and it is presented as a fundamentally new paradigm.

Apple has announced on its developer site that apps submitted to the Mac App Store starting on May 1st will no longer be allowed to incorporate garbage collection, which was deprecated in OS X 10.8.