Ebay Interview Question for Software Developers


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GC reclaims objects that are no longer being used, clears their memory, and keeps the memory available for future allocations.

This is done via bookkeeping the references to the objects. Any unreferenced object is a garbage and will be collected.

- Rezagh86 June 08, 2015 | Flag Reply
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When GC see the reference counter of a variable is zero, that means no one is referring to that variable, that variable (memory) is garbage collected and available for re use.

- Anonymous August 11, 2016 | Flag Reply


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