compacting garbage collection
compacting garbage collection
[‚käm′pak·tiŋ ′gär·bij kə′lek·shən] (computer science)
The physical rearrangement of data cells so that those cells whose contents are no longer useful (garbage) are compressed into a contiguous array.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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