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by Someone 4781 days ago
With Gargage collection, there are ni deallocations.

Also, garbage collection does not "harvest for memory locations that need to be freed and frees them.". Garbage collection does not collect garbage, it collects used space.

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I think you're misinformed.

Here are some more details if you're interested:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_collection_(computer_sc...