System Design Interview: Designing A Garbage Collection System

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15 min readSep 22, 2021

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Garbage collection is a process for automatic memory management and is an important concept in several modern programming languages. There are high chances that the question of how to design a garbage collection algorithm will appear in a system design interview. The purpose of a garbage collection system is to recycle unused memory automatically, so the heap memory does not run out of space for the new objects that are created.

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