Garbage Collected

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
GC
Pronunciation
/ˈgɑrbɪʤ kəˈlɛktəd/
Category
Miscellaneous
Related Field
Unclassified

Examples in Context

  1. Figures and EditParts will be garbage collected and recreated over time.
  2. This counter tracks the pinned objects only in the heaps that are garbage collected.
  3. Classes and classloaders can still be garbage collected in just as they are in the non-shared case.
  4. Using WeakHashMap solves the problem of Thread objects not getting garbage collected, at some additional performance cost.
  5. Retain Forever : Objects with this lifetime are never garbage collected and are accessible to all threads.

Other meanings of GC