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gc Granulosa Cell Genetic Compound General condition Gonococcal Gonococcus General Council General Cable Green Canyon Greater Charlotte ( North Carolina) Global
Catalog Green Card Guest's Copyright George Cross Gas Chromatography Gaining Command Green Camouflage Georgia Central Railway L. P. Gas Chromatograph General Chemistry Gas
Chromatography Ground Compensation Gravimetric Calibrator Gold Coins Great Coin Gamecube Galactic Coordinates Garbage Collector Garbage Collection Global Catalog Global
Cache Generic Context Global Communications Gilda's Club Generational Curriculum EduNET Georgia College Educators' Network General Construction Governor's Cup Games
Conference Game Conference Grand Champion Game Coordinator Golf Club Guard Crush Guilherme De Carvalho Grasp Corpus Guest's Copyright Grandfather Clause General
Conference Good Charlotte Grand Concert General Cinema Guest's Copyright Good Candidates General Contractor Gizmo Cost Good Call Get Crazy
GC /G-C/ [from LISP terminology; `Garbage Collect'] 1. vt. To clean up
and throw away useless things. "I think I'll GC the top of my desk
today." When said of files, this is equivalent to GFR. 2. vt. To
recycle, reclaim, or put to another use. 3. n. An instantiation of the
garbage collector process.
`Garbage collection' is computer-science techspeak for a particular
class of strategies for dynamically but transparently reallocating
computer memory (i.e., without requiring explicit allocation and
deallocation by higher-level software). One such strategy involves
periodically scanning all the data in memory and determining what is no
longer accessible; useless data items are then discarded so that the
memory they occupy can be recycled and used for another purpose.
Implementations of the LISP language usually use garbage collection.
In jargon, the full phrase is sometimes heard but the abbrev GC is
more frequently used because it is shorter. Note that there is an
ambiguity in usage that has to be resolved by context: "I'm going to
garbage-collect my desk" usually means to clean out the drawers, but it
could also mean to throw away or recycle the desk itself.
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