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How does garbage collection in Java compare to manual memory management in C and C++?


Chris DuBois
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Java handles memory automatically using Garbage Collection (GC), while C and C++ require manual memory allocation (malloc/free, new/delete). How does GC impact performance compared to RAII (Resource Acquisition Is Initialization) in C++?

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