MDN / Garbage collection
MDN / Garbage collection
Garbage collection is a term used in to describe the process of finding and deleting which are no longer being by other objects.
In other words, garbage collection is the process of removing any objects which are not being used by any other objects. Often abbreviated “GC,” garbage collection is a fundamental component of the memory management system used by .
See also
Memory management on Wikipedia
Garbage collection (computer science) on Wikipedia
Garbage collection in the MDN JavaScript guide.