Instead of having the programmer manage freeing memory (which is notoriously difficult), the idea is to have the runtime automatically discover that memory isn't used anymore and free it. This works surprisingly well, and is used in many ProgrammingLanguages? - in just about every very high level language, and also Java. It can cut a huge portion out of development time and nowadays won't impact (infact, may improve) the performance of an application.
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