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How does garbage collection work?

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How does garbage collection work?

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Current implementations of Java use a mark and sweep garbage collector. Reference counting is not used. Thus circular linked lists do not lead to memory leaks. It is theoretically possible that future versions of Java will use some other garbage collection algorithm.

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