I read somewhere that Garbage collection is not like destruction(in the C++ sense). how they are different?
I read somewhere that Garbage collection is not like destruction(in the C++ sense). how
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I read somewhere that Garbage collection is not like destruction(in the C++ sense). how they are different?
C++ destruction is deterministic, garbage collection is not.
In C++ you can guarantee when destructors will be called, in Java there is no such guarantee at all. In fact, your destructors might never be called in Java.