How does memory management work? In C you had to manage things yourself, but modern languages take care of a lot of it for you - Laurence Tratt of Kings College London explains.
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Laurence recommends the book 'The Garbage Collection
Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management' (2nd ed.) for those
interested in exploring this subject in more detail.
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