Java's Garbage Collection Explained - How It Saves your Lazy Programmer Butt

This is how Java does memory management through garbage collection!
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Ever wondered how garbage collection works in Java? Java handles a lot of memory management by itself behind the scenes, so you never have to think about it. We'll talk about what it cleans up, and how it does it in a simple way that even beginners will easily understand!

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00:00 Why Do We Need a Garbage Collector?
01:49 How Java Chooses What to Dump
03:56 How Else Can It Become Abandoned?
05:17 How the Garbage Collector Works
08:00 What Next?
08:45 BONUS

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