deallocation

Noun

Meaning

The act of deallocating.

(computing) The release of a portion of storage that had previously been allocated to a specific task.

Examples

Advantages Garbage collection frees the programmer from manually dealing with memory deallocation. Source: Internet

The garbage collector is heavily optimized to prevent impacting the performance of an application, so memory flagged for deallocation may not yet be reclaimed. Source: Internet

In Java, safe synchronous deallocation of resources can be performed deterministically using the try/catch/finally construct. Source: Internet

Instead, all dynamic memory allocation and deallocation must take place through explicitly declared access types. Source: Internet

The C++ version requires no explicit deallocation; it will always occur automatically as soon as the object array goes out of scope, including if an exception is thrown. Source: Internet

The second can be the address of a Task structure, or the address of a memory block whose allocation or deallocation failed. Source: Internet

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