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  Modern Memory Management
Subject:   C++ has garbage collection?
Date:   2005-11-08 09:53:29
From:   Lunchy
"You must be most careful with C, where you control all memory allocation and freeing. Languages such as C++, Java, Perl, and PHP take care of a lot of the housekeeping automatically."


I didn't know C++ had any more garbage collection than C had. You still need to new/delete memory or objects created on the heap just like malloc/free in C.
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  • C++ has garbage collection?
    2005-11-08 11:18:49  orichy [View]

    "I didn't know C++ had any more garbage collection than C had. You still need to new/delete memory or objects created on the heap just like malloc/free in C."

    It's true that C++ has no garbage collection by default but it has RAII. And i think what the author wanted to say is that in C++ you rarely use new/delete, compared to malloc/free in C because C++ has a good standard library offering all containers one could ever need. :-)

    BTW: The author never states, C++ had any gc as you seem to imply.

    Regards

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