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The Garbage Collector

Explore how garbage collection in D programming manages dynamic memory by reclaiming unused variables safely. Understand the garbage collection cycle, root scanning, and finalization concepts. Learn how manual control can delay or trigger collection to optimize program responsiveness and resource use.

Garbage collection cycle

The dynamic variables that are used in D programs live on memory blocks that are owned by the garbage collector (GC). When the lifetime of a variable ends (i.e., it’s no longer being used), that ...