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I got to avoid memory management for quite some time (feddit.org)

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Finally I have a valid reason to learn about memory management. It was also hella weird when encountering it.

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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Yeah, you can use the Epsilon garbage collector in Java for a no-op garbage collection strategy.

For short-lived programs that do not risk hitting any memory constraints, it makes a lot of sense - zero time wasted on cleanup during execution, then you just do it all at the end when killing the program, which you can do in constant time since you don't need to reason about what should remain or not.